EMPIRICAL STUDY FOR ESTIMATING THE LOST TIME AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS^|^mdash;CASE STUDY AT SIGNAL CHANGE INTERVALS FROM GREEN TO PROTECTED RIGHT-TURNING GREEN ARROW^|^mdash;

The brand is a powerful representational and identification-led asset that can be used to engage staff in creative, sustainable and developmental activities. Being a brand the result of, foremost, a design exercise, it is fair to suppose that it can be a relevant resource for the advancement of design literacy within organisational contexts. The main objective of this paper was to test and validate an interaction structure for an informed co-design process on visual brand artefacts. To carry on the empirical study, a university was chosen as case study as these contexts are generally rich in employee diversity. A non-functional prototype was designed, and walkthroughs were performed in five focus groups held with staff. The latter evidenced a need/wish to engage with basic design principles and high willingness to participate in the creation of brand design artefacts, mostly with the purposeof increasing its consistent use and innovate in its representation possibilities, whilst augmenting the brand’s socially responsible values.

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A case study of a conservation flagship species: the monarch butterfly

Biodiversity and Conservation ◽

10.1007/s10531-021-02183-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie D. Preston ◽

Julia D. Liao ◽

Theodore P. Toombs ◽

Rainer Romero-Canyas ◽

Julia Speiser ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Monarch Butterfly ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Flagship Species ◽

Mass Migration ◽

Tests Of Association ◽

And Migration

AbstractWhat makes a flagship species effective in engaging conservation donors? Large, charismatic mammals are typically selected as ambassadors, but a few studies suggest butterflies—and monarchs in particular—may be even more appealing. To gather more information about people’s responses to monarchs, we conducted an empirical study of member submissions to a successful conservation campaign, the Monarch Story Campaign, conducted by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The set of 691 stories along with their associated demographic and donation data was analyzed in a mixed-methods study using qualitative analysis and tests of association. The results showed that people often described encounters with monarchs in childhood and as adults. They expressed strong, positive emotions, and lauded the monarch’s beauty and other “awe-inspiring” qualities and expressed wonder at their lifecycle (i.e., metamorphosis and migration). They also raised conservation themes of distress at monarch loss, calls for action, and caretaking, such as being “fragile” and “in need.” Sharing personal encounters was associated with current efforts to save the species and more past financial donations, while a second pattern tied more donations to awe at the monarch’s mass migration. These results imply that conservation campaigns built around species people encounter may build lifelong awareness, concern, and actions towards conservation.

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An empirical study on open position risk assessment using VAR and regression analysis: A case study of Iranian banking industry

Management Science Letters ◽

10.5267/j.msl.2012.06.005 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (6) ◽

pp. 2135-2140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammad Khodaei Valahzaghard ◽

Mina Ghavidel ◽

Mojtaba Heidar ◽

Elmira Mahmoudzadeh

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Banking Industry ◽

Open Position

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Diversity Through Bureaucracy: System Judges and Intersectional Diversification of the Israeli Judiciary

Law & Ethics of Human Rights ◽

10.1515/lehr-2021-2024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 313-341

Author(s):

Alon Jasper

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Career Paths ◽

Arab Women ◽

Jewish Women ◽

Social Diversity ◽

Administrative Roles ◽

The Social

Abstract This article examines the role bureaucracy has in enhancing the social diversity of judiciaries. It does so by analyzing the Israeli judiciary and its reforms over the last three decades, and the interaction of these reforms with the appearance of intersectional judges—Arab women, Jewish women of Orthodox background, and Jewish women from geographic and economic peripheries—into the Israeli judiciary. Based on an original empirical study, the article shows that the career paths of intersectional judges include administrative roles in the judiciary more often than non-intersectional judges. The article further demonstrates how these administrative career paths were shaped by bureaucratic-minded reforms. The Israeli case study thus shows how the bureaucratic design of the judiciary can accommodate diversity efforts, sometimes unintendedly, and discusses the merits, boundaries, and drawbacks of such bureaucratic design.

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