scholarly journals AGGREGATIVE EFFECTS OF LARGE SCALE WORKPLACE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSES ON EFFECTS OF MOBILITY MANAGEMENT MEASURES

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Go HAGIHARA ◽  
Toshimichi MURAO ◽  
Kazuyuki SHIMADA ◽  
Keiko YOSHIURA ◽  
Satoshi FUJII
Keyword(s):  
Mobility Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Management Measures

Assessment of the feasibility of floodwater utilization in North-East China

Water Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 862-876
Author(s):  
Jianwei Liu ◽  
Limin Kou ◽  
Qiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
North East ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Main River ◽  
Monthly Runoff ◽  
Floodwater Utilization ◽  
Flood Resource Utilization ◽  
Storage Characteristics ◽  
Utilization Strategy

In order to alleviate the water supply–demand problem, a flood resource utilization strategy is proposed, called ‘Flood Utilization’. The strategy focuses on building large-scale water conservancy facilities and improving management measures. This paper presents the probability analysis of floodwater utilization in a confluence area, where a tributary joins a main river. Baicheng is used as the study area, where the Taoer River joins the Nenjiang River. After a large number of analyses, the main results and conclusions are as follows: First, the upper limit of available floodwater corresponds to the Taoer River's flood with a 5% probability of occurrence. Secondly, there are compensation characteristics between the two rivers which mean that the Nenjiang River can supply water to the Taoer River area. The analysis of monthly runoff, shows that there are compensation characteristics in 50.9% of the data period. The compensation rates (CRs) for the months from June to October are 0.2, 0.27, 0.25, 0.27, and 0.2, respectively. Thirdly, the differences in the runoff characteristics show that it is suitable for floodwater utilization. Finally, it is proposed that floodwater utilization measures are based on local conditions, such as the regional water storage characteristics and the runoff characteristics of the two rivers, and should be applied for different periods.

scholarly journals The Proactive Shift in Managing an Older  Workforce 2009–2017: A Latent Class Analysis of Organizational Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1515-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Turek ◽  
Jaap Oude Mulders ◽  
Kène Henkens
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Model ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Workforce Aging ◽  
Major Shift

Abstract Background and Objectives Longitudinal perspectives on how organizations react to workforce aging are missing in the literature. In this study, we fill this gap and ask how organizations deal with older workers, how their approaches change over time, and in which sectors of the economy and types of organizations the changes were most profound. Research Design and Methods Data come from two large-scale employer surveys: 2009 (n = 1,077) and 2017 (n = 1,358), representative for the Netherlands. We use a three-step group-comparison latent class analysis combined with a multinomial logistic model. Results We found four clusters of organizations based on their practices regarding older workers—those trying to activate and develop their employees (active), focusing solely on exit measures (exit), implementing a combination of development, accommodating and exit measures (all), and practicing no age management (none). We find a major shift in employers’ approaches to aging workforces between 2009 and 2017, with strong decreases in those that offered no age management (47%–30%) and those focusing on exit measures (21%–6%), and an increase in active organizations (19%–52%). Active age management is no longer concentrated in large and developing organizations, but has become a standard human resources tool economy-wide. Discussion and Implications Overall, there is a long-term trend away from exit measures toward the application of proactive age management measures. More involvement of employers in retaining older adults in the workplace may signal a growing awareness of the changing demographic reality.

scholarly journals Illuminating Endocrine Evolution: The Power and Potential of Large-Scale Comparative Analyses

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 712-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren N Vitousek ◽  
Michele A Johnson ◽  
Jerry F Husak
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Comparative Analyses

scholarly journals Impact of Japanese Post-Disaster Temporary Housing Areas’ (THAs) Design on Mental and Social Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 4757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bris ◽  
Bendito
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Temporary Housing ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Kobe Earthquake ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Disaster

The phenomenon named kodokushi, meaning death alone without the care or company of anyone inside temporary housing, appeared after the Kobe earthquake in Japan in 1995 with some 250 cases. This paper analyzes the evolution of Japanese temporary houses—to attempt to prevent the problem of kodokushi—from the point of view of management, how services and activities are organized, and design. We will use case studies as our methodological tool, analyzing the responses in 1995 Kobe (50,000 THs), 2004 Chūetsu (3000 THs), 2011 Tōhoku (50,000 THs), and 2016 Kumamoto (4000 THs). This article shows how the Japanese THAs follow a single design that has undergone very little variation in the last 25 years, a design which promotes the social isolation of their residents, making recovery—from the psychological perspective—and helping the most vulnerable members of society, more difficult. In small scale disasters (Chūetsu) applying organization and management measures was able to correct the problems caused by design and there were no cases of kodokushi: in large-scale disasters (Tōhoku), however, the difficulties to implement the same measures resulted in the reappearance of new cases at rates similar to Kobe’s. Our main conclusion is that the design of Japanese THAs must be reconsidered and changed to respond to the real needs of the most vulnerable groups.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable River Management of the Dutch Rhine River

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Havinga
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
River System ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
River Management ◽  
Rhine River ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
River Training ◽  
Improvement Programs

Two thousand years of human interventions has heavily modified the Dutch Rhine river. Situated in a densely populated and developed delta, the river and its infrastructure fulfil important societal functions: safety against flooding, inland waterways, nature, freshwater supply, and agriculture. Programs to improve individual functions increasingly lead to conflicts with other functions and therefore call for an integrated approach. This paper reviews the history of the Dutch Rhine and documents the sectoral improvement programs in recent decades, explaining adverse effects such as the large-scale bed degradation at rates of up to 4 cm per year. The lessons from the past are used to propose avenues for future integrated and sustainable river training and river management, arguing that mitigating adverse effects while maintaining societal functions requires a combination of recurrent sediment management measures and extensive structural measures that may change the layout of the river system.

The limits of chimpanzee-human comparisons for understanding human cognition

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Reader ◽  
Steven M. Hrotic
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Cognitive Traits ◽  
Close Relatives

AbstractEvolutionary questions require specialized approaches, part of which are comparisons between close relatives. However, to understand the origins of human tool behavior, comparisons with solely chimpanzees are insufficient, lacking the power to identify derived traits. Moreover, tool use is unlikely a unitary phenomenon. Large-scale comparative analyses provide an alternative and suggest that tool use co-evolves with a suite of cognitive traits.

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