scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE PROCESS OF CONSENSUS BUILDING ON RECONSTRUCTION OF CONDOMINIUMS : Case studies in the metropolitan area

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (505) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumitake MENO
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Consensus Building

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

Meta-Synthesis Knowledge System

2013 ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Gu Jifa
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
System Model ◽  
Model Integration ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Synthesis System

Meta-synthesis knowledge system (MSKS) is based on the meta-synthesis system approach and knowledge science. This article introduces the basic theory of meta-synthesis knowledge system like DMTMC system, model integration, opinion synthesis, consensus building and expert mining. Similar MSKS systems are illustrated. Case studies and examples are also explored in this article.

Mediating among Mediators: Building a Consensus in Multilateral Interventions

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timea Spitka
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
International Intervention ◽  
Intervention Process

AbstractThe conditions under which multilateral international intervention are effective in ending a violent conflict is a critical question for scholars and practitioners. Scholarly studies have demonstrated the importance of a united intervention but have been in disagreement over the effectiveness of neutral versus partisan intervention. This article examines the conditions under which mediators construct a consensus on the type of intervention process. What are the factors that enable a consensus on a neutral versus a partisan intervention? Distinguishing between four types of international intervention processes – united-neutral, united-partisan, divided-partisan, and divided neutral and partisan intervention – this article argues that it is a united intervention, whether united partisan or united-neutral, that contributes to creating leverage on conflicting parties to end a conflict. The article examines consensus building among mediators within two divergent case studies: Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Developing Safety Cultures in Amtrak and WMATA

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Buckley ◽  
Keith Marfione ◽  
Hannah Putman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Safety Cultures ◽  
Collaborative Cultures

Amtrak and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) have made recent efforts to improve their organizational safety cultures. By transforming their values and behaviors, these transportation organizations sought to reduce employee and passenger accidents and injuries, as well as build more collaborative cultures. This paper illustrates case studies of Amtrak and WMATA and examines the strategies and promising practices that these organizations employed to improve their safety cultures.

scholarly journals Desempeño térmico de fachadas verdes tradicionales de orientación este en viviendas seriadas emplazadas en climas áridos

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Pablo Abel Suarez ◽  
María Alicia Cantón ◽  
Érica Correa
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Temperature ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Thermal Condition ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Arid Climate ◽  
Interior Walls ◽  
The Impact

Green infrastructure is a strategy for mitigating urban and building temperatures. This work assesses the impact of a type of Vertical Greenery System (VGS), the Traditional Green Façades (TGF), on the thermal condition of dwellings located in the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza, Argentina, whose climate is dry desert (BWk - Köppen-Geiger). To this end, two case studies were monitored for two consecutive summers: a dwelling with an east-facing TGF and a control dwelling of the same typology and materiality. Outdoor and indoor ambient temperature data were recorded: surface exterior and interior, and horizontal radiation. Decreases of up to 3.1°C in the indoor ambient temperature of FVT dwellings, of up to 27.4°C on exterior walls and 6.5°C on interior walls were found. The magnitudes of the results found show the potential of applying this strategy in an arid climate.

University Infrastructures for Peace in Africa: The Transformative Potential of Higher Education in Conflict Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ane Turner Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Transformative Capacity ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

The purpose of this article is to consider how higher education responds to conflict on campus and in the community. Moving beyond the victim/perpetrator paradigm prevalent in the literature on education in conflict contexts toward the transformative capacity of education, this research suggests that public universities may develop mechanisms that orient the institution toward capacity and consensus building—constructs associated with infrastructures for peace. Findings from comparative case studies conducted in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya at two public universities demonstrate that both intentional and indirect policies were cultivated to contend with and possibly transform the conditions for localized conflict and begin to theorize university infrastructures for peace.

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