Governance and management of irrigation systems

Water Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacinta Palerm-Viqueira
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
The Self ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
System A ◽  
New Perspective

This article explores the argument that an analytical differentiation between governance and management of irrigation systems can be a useful tool; focussing on management type provides a new perspective. It is possible to distinguish between cases of self-governance where irrigators carry out all tasks with reference to local knowledge and the alternative extreme, consisting of cases of self-governance where all management is carried out by hired professional staff. Besides this, bureaucratic and technocratic management is found in irrigation systems with diverse loci of authority (state and self-governance). It is further proposed that; whereas the self-governance of irrigation systems appears not to be restricted by the size of the system, a non-bureaucratic management, without specialized staff will be restricted because of this factor. However, it is argued that governance and management interact in such a way that the decentralization of governance may act as a strategy for avoiding or reducing bureaucratic management.

Analysis and System: A Marriage

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Quadrio
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Heinz Kohut ◽  
Object A ◽  
System A ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Systems Models ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Dyadic System ◽  
Margaret Mahler

Self-psychology describes a psychoanalytic model developed by Heinz Kohut and based upon a systemic concept of the ‘self-object’, a system of self and object which differentiates progressively from an early symbiotic fusion at birth to healthy interdependence at around three years of age. These stages of differentiation were originally described by Margaret Mahler and interpreted by her within a Kleinian framework. Self-psychology differs in many key concepts from the Kleinian and other psychoanalytic models, and Kohut reinterpreted Mahler's work from this new perspective. The systemic or dyadic basis of Kohutian theory provides a bridge between psychoanalytic models and systems models of marital dynamics, an important meeting ground for interpsychic and intrapsychic viewpoints. Progressive differentiation within a dyadic system can be applied developmentally to the mother-infant, husband-wife, or therapist-patient dyad, as can the self-object transference concept.

scholarly journals A Study on Development of Engine Fault Diagnostic System

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hwa-seon Kim ◽  
Seong-jin Jang ◽  
Jong-wook Jang
Keyword(s):  
Data Transmission ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
The Self ◽  
System Management ◽  
Diagnostic Code ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
System A ◽  
Message Structure ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Engine Condition

This study implemented a mobile diagnosing system that provides user-centered interfaces for more precisely estimating and diagnosing engine conditions through communications with the self-developed ECU only for industrial CRDI engine use. For the implemented system, a new protocol was designed and applied based on OBD-II standard to receive engine data values of the developed ECU. The designed protocol consists of a message structure to request data transmission from a smartphone to ECU and a response message structure for ECU to send data to a smartphone. It transmits 31 pieces of engine condition information simultaneously and sends the trouble diagnostic code. Because the diagnostic system enables real-time communication through modules, the engine condition information can be checked at any time. Thus, because when troubles take place on the engine, users can check them right away, quick response and resolution are possible, and stable system management can be expected.

scholarly journals Biomimetic Sonar for Electrical Activation of the Auditory Pathway

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Menniti ◽  
S. A. Pullano ◽  
M. G. Bianco ◽  
R. Citraro ◽  
E. Russo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Brain Response ◽  
Implanted Electrodes ◽  
System A ◽  
Signal Features ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Rate Frequency

Relying on the mechanism of bat’s echolocation system, a bioinspired electronic device has been developed to investigate the cortical activity of mammals in response to auditory sensorial stimuli. By means of implanted electrodes, acoustical information about the external environment generated by a biomimetic system and converted in electrical signals was delivered to anatomically selected structures of the auditory pathway. Electrocorticographic recordings showed that cerebral activity response is highly dependent on the information carried out by ultrasounds and is frequency-locked with the signal repetition rate. Frequency analysis reveals that delta and beta rhythm content increases, suggesting that sensorial information is successfully transferred and integrated. In addition, principal component analysis highlights how all the stimuli generate patterns of neural activity which can be clearly classified. The results show that brain response is modulated by echo signal features suggesting that spatial information sent by biomimetic sonar is efficiently interpreted and encoded by the auditory system. Consequently, these results give new perspective in artificial environmental perception, which could be used for developing new techniques useful in treating pathological conditions or influencing our perception of the surroundings.

Guiding Self-Organization in Systems of Cooperative Mobile Agents

2011 ◽  
pp. 268-290
Author(s):  
Alejandro Rodríguez ◽  
Alexander Grushin ◽  
James A. Reggia
Keyword(s):  
Swarm Intelligence ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Assembly System ◽  
Global Behavior ◽  
System A ◽  
Collective Transport ◽  
Reactive Behavior ◽  
Different Levels

Drawing inspiration from social interactions in nature, swarm intelligence has presented a promising approach to the design of complex systems consisting of numerous, simple parts, to solve a wide variety of problems. Swarm intelligence systems involve highly parallel computations across space, based heavily on the emergence of global behavior through local interactions of components. This has a disadvantage as the desired behavior of a system becomes hard to predict or design. Here we describe how to provide greater control over swarm intelligence systems, and potentially more useful goal-oriented behavior, by introducing hierarchical controllers in the components. This allows each particle-like controller to extend its reactive behavior in a more goal-oriented style, while keeping the locality of the interactions. We present three systems designed using this approach: a competitive foraging system, a system for the collective transport and distribution of goods, and a self-assembly system capable of creating complex 3D structures. Our results show that it is possible to guide the self-organization process at different levels of the designated task, suggesting that self-organizing behavior may be extensible to support problem solving in various contexts.

The Dialectics of Affect

Anxiety ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 133-174
Author(s):  
Bettina Bergo
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Spiritual History

Initially influenced by Schelling’s lectures on positive philosophy (1841–1842), Kierkegaard ultimately withdrew from his lectures, devoting his attention exclusively to the redaction of Either/Or. The Concept of Anxiety was written in the shadow of that work under a uniquely anonymous pseudonym. Of course, anxiety in his deformalization of late idealism was not a concept; it belonged and did not belong to the understanding. Indeed, it precedes human actions under the sign of inherited “sinfulness” and as sheer possibility. If Kierkegaard aligned freedom with a leap, then anxiety was the affect precursive to it. Anxiety was the prethetic knowing that we are able to do. . . X. Tracing the “spiritual” history of the human race which carries the sins of the fathers even as it freely enacts sin, Kierkegaard urged that the more spiritual the culture, the more anxious it was. No longer the adjuvant of reason as in Hegel, anxiety belonged to the irreducible condition of a living subject. Over the five years that separated the Concept of Anxiety from Sickness onto Death, Kierkegaard’s mood of “Angest” will intensify as it is approached from his new perspective of Coram Deo (“before God”). Within the new perspective, the status and the meaning of the self is altered, showing a clearer relation to infinity. For the task of Kierkegaard’s philosophy—learning to become the nothing that one is—had attained a new stage in his existential dialectic. His arguments influenced Heidegger’s recourse to anxiety as a passage toward the question of being.

The STECC Framework - An Architecture for Self-Testable Components

2007 ◽  
pp. 213-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Beydeda
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Software System ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
System A ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Self Testing ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
New Form ◽  
Limited Exchange

Development of a software system from existing components can surely have various benefits, but can also entail a series of problems. One type of problem is caused by a limited exchange of information between the developer and user of a component. A limited exchange and thereby a lack of information can have various consequences, among them the requirement to test a component prior to its integration into a software system. A lack of information cannot only make testing prior to integration necessary; it can also complicate this task. However, difficulties in testing can be avoided if certain provisions to increase testability are taken beforehand. This article briefly describes a new form of improving testability of, particularly commercial, components, the self-testing COTS components (STECC) strategy and explains in detail the STECC framework, which implements the necessary technical architecture to augment Java components with self-testability.

scholarly journals Dare to care

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Anita Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Care Home ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Kent County ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Times ◽  
Threatening Situation

Paper is divided into two parts. The first contains two philosophical discussions about comprehension of courage and the second focuses on the findings in an empirical study with care home managers about the virtue of courage. First discussion revolves around the question whether the virtue of courage is expressed a) only in life–threatening situations or is it a virtue trained and exemplified in b) everyday life settings, while the second emphasises the difference between i) courage of efficiency as a skill and ii) courage of excellence as a virtue. Arguments here support a vision of courage as the virtue of excellence expressed in everyday life settings. The second part of the paper highlights a new perspective of courage with regards to the notion of care towards the aim of the courageous endeavour. The ‘courage of care’ supports the idea that the courage practised as the virtue of excellence aims to develop the moral character of the actor fundamentally outside of the life–threatening situation. Care for the self, other people, animals and intangible moral principles inspire us to do brave deeds. Thus, by accepting Alasdair MacIntyre’s statements that a) in the times of the peace managers represent moral idols and b) idea that the notion of courage should be closely related to the practice of care and compassion, the research continued with the interviews with the care home managers in Kent county in England. Conversations with care home managers released further insights into how care and compassion influence the understanding of the virtue of courage.

scholarly journals Self-reactions in the HCl+ (DCl+) + HCl system: a state-selective investigation of the role of rotation

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (25) ◽  
pp. 16454-16461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Uhlemann ◽  
Jens Wallauer ◽  
Karl-Michael Weitzel
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Rotational Velocity ◽  
The Self ◽  
System A ◽  
The Cross

The cross sections for the self-reaction of state-selected HCl+ (DCl+) ions with HCl are shown to depend characteristically on the rotational velocity of the ion relative to that of the neutral.

‘Salute to Radio’: The self-reflexive artistry of Betty Comden and Adolph Green in Fun with the Revuers

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahoko Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Aesthetic

Betty Comden and Adolph Green are well-known librettists and lyricists of stage musicals and musical films; their artistic style and verbal expression are considered to bear urban witness to a period understanding of the 1940s and 1950s. Nonetheless, previous studies have scarcely investigated the aesthetic features of their dramaturgy, especially with regard to linguistic expression. This article focuses on the radio comedy Fun with the Revuers, for which they wrote scripts and lyrics. Through a close look at the scripts and sound recordings, it analyses the ‘interruptive sound and voice’ functions that construct the show, and examines how these satirize the conventions of the format, as well as the essential features of the medium. This article will offer a new perspective on the generational dynamics of Comden and Green’s artistry.

Understanding Interaction Inside and Outside the EFL Self-Concept System: A Case Study of Chinese Learners in Junior High School

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Chen ◽  
Hao Xu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Concept System ◽  
System A ◽  
Chinese Learners

AbstractThis case study on three Chinese EFL learners in junior high school examined the interaction inside and outside learners’ EFL self-concept system, and the findings revealed: (1) inside the self-concept system, the interaction between the global and specific self-concepts is of much complexity; (2) the gap between the global and specific self-concepts would cause imbalance in the self-concept system, and thus trigger efforts to improve learning, while some reconciling elements in the global self-concept may sustain balance in the self-concept system, inhibiting learners’ motivation to improve; and (3) the degree of specificity of learners’ specific selfconcepts that inform learners’ learning efforts contributes considerably to the outcome of these efforts, as does that of learners’ beliefs about EFL learning which mediate the learning efforts.

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