CLIMATIC AND PHENOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF MODERN WARMING IN THE TERRITORY OF THE UDMURT REPUBLIC (A CASE STUDY OF IZHEVSK)

The article presents the results of the assessment of the dynamics of climatic and phenological indicators from the point of view of the processes of modern climate warming in the territory of Izhevsk (Udmurt Republic). It is established that the pronounced warming trend has been manifested since 1988, taking an unambiguous character since the 2000s. Relative to the base period of 1961-1990, the average annual air temperature in Izhevsk increased from 2.5 °C to 3.3 °C for the climatic period of 1991-2020. The main increase in temperatures can be traced in the cold season, in the winter months, at the beginning of the calendar spring and in the second half of autumn. According to the data presented, the duration of the periods with temperatures of 0, 5 and 10 °C changed upwards by 12, 12 and 6 days, respectively. The average long-term sum of active temperatures above 10 °C for the period 1991-2020 was 2160.9 °C, corresponding to the values of the indicator of the biological efficiency of the climate in the area of the ecological optimum of the functioning of zonal landscapes of the temperate zone. When comparing the current timing of the onset of phenological phenomena in Izhevsk with the period of the 50s-70s of the XX century, their advance by 4-10 days for the spring and summer seasons and a delay of 9-10 days in autumn-winter conditions was established. This affected the change in the length of the seasons with an increase in spring, summer and autumn by 1, 10 and 6 days, respectively, and a shortening of winter by 17 days.

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Addressing ecology and sustainability in mega-sporting events: The 2006 football World Cup in Germany

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/s1833367200001954 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 587-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Harald Dolles ◽

Sten Söderman

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Sporting Events ◽

World Cup ◽

Sporting Event ◽

History Of ◽

Waste Energy ◽

First Time ◽

Water Waste

AbstractFor the first time in the history of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the football (soccer) World Cup held in Germany 2006 specifically addressed environmental concerns. By doing so, the German Organizing Committee did not have the objective of creating a short-term vision, but rather of making a long-term and lasting contribution to the improvement of environmental protection in hosting a mega-sporting event. By taking the football world cup in Germany as a case study, we will provide insights into the so-called ‘Green Goal’ programme and its four main areas: water, waste, energy, and transportation. From a global point of view, climate protection was added by the Organizing Committee as the fifth area of action and was recognised as a cross-sectorial task. Finally, questions are addressed on how to apply those measurements in the planning and organisation of other mega (-sporting) events.

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La planificación como impulsora de la evolución socioeconómica y el desarrollo local de Torre Pacheco (Murcia) = Planning as a Driver of Socio-Economic Evolution and Local Development of Torre Pacheco (Murcia)

Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie VI Geografía ◽

10.5944/etfvi.13.2020.27327 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 215

Author(s):

Mercedes Millán Escriche

Keyword(s):

Water Availability ◽

Time Horizon ◽

Local Development ◽

Point Of View ◽

Economic Evolution ◽

Planning Strategies ◽

Estudio De Caso

El municipio de Torre Pacheco ha conocido una significativa evolución en las últimas décadas, tanto desde el punto de vista territorial como socioeconómico. El principal objetivo de esta aportación es comprobar qué tipo de actuaciones han contribuido a modificar la tendencia de declive que compartía con otros espacios rurales. Junto al estudio de caso, se ha recurrido a una metodología no experimental, exploratoria y descriptiva de tipo cualitativo, sin renunciar al soporte de las estadísticas necesarias que cuantifiquen y apoyen determinados aspectos. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de relieve los beneficios alcanzados en Torre Pacheco mediante el incremento de su disponibilidad hídrica, a partir de la aplicación de estrategias de planificación llevadas a cabo con un horizonte temporal de largo plazo.Abstract The municipality of Torre Pacheco has undergone a significant evolution in recent decades, both from the territorial and socioeconomic point of view. The main objective of this contribution is to verify what type of actions has contributed to modifying the trend of decline that it shared with other rural areas.Along with the case study, a non-experimental, exploratory and descriptive methodology of a qualitative type has been used, without renouncing the support of the necessary statistics that quantify and support certain aspects. The results obtained highlight the benefits achieved in Torre Pacheco by increasing its water availability, through the application of planning strategies carried out with a long-term time horizon.

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Sustaining Engineering Informatics: Toward Methods and Metrics for Digital Curation

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v3i2.58 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 59-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Josh Lubell ◽

Sudarsan Rachuri ◽

Mahesh Mani ◽

Eswaran Subrahmanian

Keyword(s):

Functional Model ◽

Point Of View ◽

Digital Curation ◽

Open Archival Information System ◽

User Access ◽

Digital Objects ◽

Definition Of ◽

Design And Manufacture

Ensuring the long-term usability of engineering informatics (EI) artifacts is a challenge, particularly for products with longer lifecycles than the computing hardware and software used for their design and manufacture. Addressing this challenge requires characterizing the nature of EI, defining metrics for EI sustainability, and developing methods for long-term EI curation. In this paper we highlight various issues related to long-term archival of EI and describe the work towards methods and metrics for sustaining EI. We propose an approach to enhance the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) functional model to incorporate EI sustainability criteria, Digital Object Prototypes (DOPs), and end user access requirements. We discuss the end user’s requirements from the point of view of reference, reuse and rationale – the “3Rs” – to better understand the level of granularity and abstractions required in the definition of engineering digital objects. Finally we present a proposed case study and experiment.

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Perilaku Investor Muslim Dalam Bertransaksi Saham di Pasar Modal

Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah Teori dan Terapan ◽

10.20473/vol1iss201412pp874-892 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (12) ◽

pp. 874

Author(s):

Pramita Agustin ◽

Imron Mawardi

Keyword(s):

Capital Market ◽

Investment Decision ◽

Investment Decisions ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Point Of View ◽

Investor Behavior ◽

Case Study Method ◽

Stock Transaction

This research aims to know the muslim investor behavior in a stock transaction in capital market. This research used the qualitative approach, using the case study method by basing on the theory of behavioral finance.Data collection using a purposive sampling technique to determine informants amounted to five muslim investors who at least has a two year stock transaction to be interviewed in depth, observed and evaluated the data by performing a triangulation.The results of this research have findings that muslim investor behavior in a stock transaction is divided into two point of view that is, investors who consider religion in their investment decisions and the invetor did not consider religion in their investment decisions. Investors who consider religion in their investment decisions preferring stock composition of the incoming Sharia index list and nature of investments tend to be long term. Investors who do not consider religion in choosing his investment decision stock blends well in the Shariahcompliantindex or not. The nature of investment investors who did not consider the shortterm nature of the religion.

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Ecological and Economic Sustainability in Olive Groves with Different Irrigation Management and Levels of Erosion: A Case Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11174681 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (17) ◽

pp. 4681 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Antonio Alberto Rodríguez Sousa ◽

Jesús M. Barandica ◽

Alejandro Rescia

Keyword(s):

Labour Force ◽

Irrigation Management ◽

Point Of View ◽

Soil Parameters ◽

Economic Point ◽

Erosion Processes ◽

Olive Groves ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

In the last 50 years, both the agricultural labour force and irrigated land area have increased almost eightfold in Spain. The main objective of irrigation, in the short term, is to increase agricultural production. However, in the long term, the environmental externalities of irrigation and its direct relationship with soil erosion processes are more uncertain and still poorly studied. In this study, in an olive-growing region of Andalusia, Spain, the variation of several soil parameters related to irrigation and erosion levels was analysed. The results showed that irrigation, while increasing the productive level of the olive groves, entails a progressive alteration of the soil, modifying physical aspects (greater compaction and humidity of the soil together with lower gravel content, porosity and soil weight) and chemical aspects (reduction of the organic matter of the soil and the content of nitrates) that can aggravate the consequences of the erosive processes. In the long term, the productive benefit attributed to irrigation could be unsustainable from an ecological and, consequently, economic point of view. In addition, the lack of sustainability of olive irrigation agroecosystems could be exacerbated by the future restrictive impacts of climate change on water resources in Mediterranean environments. This situation demands spatial planning and alternative management based on soil conservation and rational and efficient forms of irrigation to ensure the sustainability of olive groves and their economic viability.

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Addressing ecology and sustainability in mega-sporting events: The 2006 football World Cup in Germany

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.5172/jmo.2010.16.4.587 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 587-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Harald Dolles ◽

Sten Söderman

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Sporting Events ◽

World Cup ◽

Sporting Event ◽

History Of ◽

Waste Energy ◽

First Time ◽

Water Waste

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How close can we dance? Labour–management partnership on a borderline

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x10387837 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 591-608 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Monica Rolfsen

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Positive Outcome ◽

Point Of View ◽

Traditional Role ◽

Labour Unions ◽

Close Cooperation ◽

Empirical Material ◽

Labour Management

Recent studies have examined whether labour unions will benefit from stepping out of their traditional role and into labour–management partnership. This article discusses the limits of such partnership, exploring the negotiations prevailing as the union representatives go so far into cooperation that it turns out to be controversial among their members. In order to understand this conflict, there is a need to clarify the content of the labour–management partnership. This article contributes first by presenting novel empirical material from an in-depth qualitative case study. This material indicates that controversies occur when the union representatives start acting like managers, are responsible for decisions that reduce the members’ benefits and distance themselves from the rank-and-file’s point of view. In addition, this article contributes by exposing that close cooperation in long-term development issues need not be controversial. Quite the contrary – this is mentioned as the most positive outcome of the partnership.

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A Case Study on the Variability of Summer Water Properties in the Southeastern Yellow Sea Based on the Hydrological Data from 1995 to 2019

Water ◽

10.3390/w13010079 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 79

Author(s):

Lei Wu ◽

Bin Wang

Keyword(s):

Yellow Sea ◽

Cold Water ◽

Deep Layer ◽

Warming Trend ◽

Residual Current ◽

Hydrological Data ◽

Water Properties ◽

Cooling Trend

The long-term variability of the summer water properties in the southeastern Yellow Sea is described using the hydrological data. The results indicate warming trend in the upper layer and cooling trend in the deeper layer resulting in a strengthen thermocline. While, the mean and the core temperatures in the southeastern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass both tend to rise slowly, which are previously thought to be fallen. At the deep layer (below 30 m depth), the temperature cooling trend in summer is even stronger than that in winter, which contradict to the stronger surface heat flux in summer. This study proposes that the strengthen thermocline during warming seasons (spring and summer) prevents the heat transferring from surface to the deep layer across isopycnal lines. Furthermore, combined with the metrological data, the strengthen thermocline induces stronger southward tidal residual current at the deep layer, which facilitates the enhanced complementary wind-driven current induced by the southerly monsoon. Thus, the southward tidal induced residual current effectively contributes to the southward motion of the colder water from the northern area. The declined trending of salinity due to the increase of the Changjiang River discharge can be conducive to the strengthen summer thermocline.

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The Slovak Greens: A complex story of a small party

Communist and Post-Communist Studies ◽

10.1016/j.postcomstud.2009.02.006 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 115-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lubomír Kopeček

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Electoral System ◽

Environmental Movement ◽

Point Of View ◽

Green Party ◽

Marginal Status ◽

Slovak Politics ◽

Political Success

This article is a case study of the Green Party in Slovakia. The line of explanation of the party’s trajectory is chronological, from foundation to its present marginal status. The two main causes of repeated internal party splits identified by the article are the influence of nationalism and the party’s relationship to the most important formation in Slovak politics during the 1990s, Vladimír Mečiar’s Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. It, furthermore, points to the barrier of a relatively high clause in the electoral system to national parliament which determined the Greens’ tendency to enter wider coalition partnerships. These partnerships, however, had a negative impact on the long-term perspective on the distinctiveness of the Greens from the point of view of voters. Other important factors in the party’s lack of political success have been their isolation from the environmental movement and the public’s low level of interest in ecological and other post-material issues.

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The Migrant in English Art: Perspectives on Influence and Agency

Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500 ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197266724.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 206-237

Author(s):

Julian Luxford

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Art History ◽

Point Of View ◽

Church Architecture ◽

Medieval Art ◽

Art And Architecture

This chapter addresses English medieval art and architecture in the long term and is of a basically methodological character. It argues for a view of immigrancy rooted in stylistic and (less urgently) iconographic influence, in favour of an approach through case studies of individual immigrant artists or particular works. In an extended introduction, the traditional, formalist nature of art history is presented as a justification of this point of view. This is followed by an object-focused section in which some of the main practical functions and ambiguities of the concept of influence are exposed, and the problems of ignoring these ambiguities suggested. A case study focused on English church architecture is then presented in order to clarify the theoretical points. The chapter concludes with a brief, essentially sceptical review of the usefulness of medieval documentation as a basis for understanding stylistic influence in art.

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