Recreating Tokelau

2015 ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
Philippe Campays ◽  
Dr. Fabricio Chicca
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
University Research ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Island Community ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses a specific grassroots initiative of an economically disadvantaged Pacific Island community from Tokelau who has been displaced to New Zealand. To retain their island culture, community members sought to develop a centre as a source of their empowerment, one which would ‘capture the essence of a Tokelau village'. They invited the School of Architecture at the University of Wellington to assist with its development. The guiding principles of this empowerment project are grassroots participation, mutual decision-making and shared implementation. The application of these principles is particularly befitting to participatory design methods. Despite some challenges, a number of benefits from this community's project can be cited. These include the strengthening of their sense of community, preservation of aspects of culture and a collective shared vision for the future. The fundamental idea here is that communities need to be able to seek, and receive help that empowers them rather than being offered potentially subsuming interventions. This was achieved through the development of trust between the university research team and the members of the Tokelau community. The opportunity for the university students and the Tokelau youth to engage and learn from each other were part of unanticipated additional outcomes.

scholarly journals A Study on Trust Construction in University Research Team

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Liu Guoxin ◽  
Yan Junzhou
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Repeated Game ◽  
University Research ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Game Model ◽  
Trust Mechanism ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
The University

University research team, as a special form of organizations in university, is a characteristic feature of contemporaneity science.it has a rapid development in recent years. But the trust is playing a very important role in research team’s development. The paper analyzes the trust construction of research team by establish one-shot and repeated trust game models, and based on this, establishes the trust game model with university intervention. The conclusion shows that the trust mechanism will not be constructed by one-shot game. While it can be constructed by repeated game, but its trust mechanism is not stable. With the university intervation, the team members will change their behavior and increase the trust probability, and it will be easily construct trust in university research team. According to the above analysis, the paper presents some countermeasures and suggestions to promote trust construction in university research team.

Activities for Students: Managing Returns in a Catalog Distribution Center

2004 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Joyce Gates ◽  
Julie Ann Stuart ◽  
Winston Bonawi-tan ◽  
Sarah Loehr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Distribution Center ◽  
University Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Distribution Centers ◽  
Purdue University ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Potential Profit

Iwas amazed by the complexity of the returnshandling problem at a catalog distribution center that I studied with a Purdue University research team. Initially, the problem appeared to be purely accounting in nature. I proposed storing returned items if the cost of processing a return back to inventory was lower than the potential profit generated by selling it. I discovered that many other factors, such as the speed with which the catalog distribution center fills an order, must be considered in the decision-making process. The research team developed an algorithm that considers several different factors, in addition to cost, to help catalog distribution centers process their returns more efficiently (Stuart et al. 2003).

scholarly journals Praxis for Accelerated Improvement in Research (PAIR)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Jovito C. Anito Jr. ◽  
Auxencia A. Limjap ◽  
Reynold C. Padagas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Research Management ◽  
University Research ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
The University

This article introduces the Praxis for Accelerated Improvement in Research (PAIR) as a transformative research management paradigm drawn from the participatory action research program focused on research production and publication in a private higher education institution in Manila, Philippines. PAIR mentoring scheme upholds establishing a committed and caring relationship between the mentor and the mentee, thereby developing a shared vision towards research. PAIR mentoring further underscores the need to institute a university research infrastructure to support its research programs and initiatives. This participatory and transformative approach to research management tendered significant (and accelerated) improvement in the Scopus® metrics of the university. Reflecting from the researchers’ and research participants’ journey in implementing and embracing change and improvement in the university research programs, this article argues that researchers need to advance connectedness, conviviality, optimism, shared vision, and prudence in all aspects of research. This article thereby recommends learning and researching within the lens of participatory and transformative paradigm. The authors further recommend to higher education institutions establishment of a sustained mentoring program where mentors and mentees mutually agree and commit to advance the research vision of the university collectively. Finally, this article reasons in favor of an institutional research infrastructure that nurtures not just the knowledge and skills in research, but also the attitude and values of its research stakeholders towards research and the overall research program of the organization.

scholarly journals ΑΝΑΣΥΓΚΡΟΤΩΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ «ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ» ΣΤΙΣ ΒΕΝΕΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΥΜΕΝΕΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΕΣ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΕΣ. ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΕΙΑΚΕΣ ΠΗΓΕΣ

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΑ ΠΑΠΑΔΙΑ-ΛΑΛΑ
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
University Research ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

<p>This paper, which brought to an end the One-day Conference, titled"Greek Communities and the European World (13th-19th centuries). Patternsof self-administration, social organization, identities' formation", attempts tosynthesize and summarize the conclusions of the research programme of thesame name, with an emphasis on communities in Greek lands under Venetianrule. These communities are approached as a factor in the formation of socialclasses and as the driving force behind the development of forms of regionalself-governing. The programme concluded that the communities were linkedto Europe via the rule of Venice, while their 'Greekness' relates both to theGreek lands as a whole, despite border variations, and to their members, the"Greci", considerable numbers of whom were to gradually acquire positionsof note in the communities alongside their Latin overlords.</p><p>The research team identified, catalogued and digitized a mass of historicalmaterial, the three most important sources of which were the embassies, theregisters of marriages and births/deaths and the communities' statutes. Thishistorical material, which is now held at the University of Athens, alsoconstituted the main source for the synthesizing studies published in thisvolume. The material will also be available to the community of historians forfuture study and will play its part in furthering university research andteaching.</p>

Evaluation of the Academic Setting in Spain 1This study was financed by the University of Oviedo.

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.

Methodology of ECG Interpretation in the Padova Program

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 386-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Degani ◽  
G. Bortolan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Measurement Evaluation ◽  
Possibility Distributions ◽  
Linguistic Decision Making ◽  
The University ◽  
Ecg Interpretation

AbstractThe main lines ofthe program designed for the interpretation of ECGs, developed in Padova by LADSEB-CNR with the cooperation of the Medical School of the University of Padova are described. In particular, the strategies used for (i) morphology recognition, (ii) measurement evaluation, and (iii) linguistic decision making are illustrated. The main aspect which discerns this program in comparison with other approaches to computerized electrocardiography is its ability of managing the imprecision in both the measurements and the medical knowledge through the use of fuzzy-set methodologies. So-called possibility distributions are used to represent ill-defined parameters as well as threshold limits for diagnostic criteria. In this way, smooth conclusions are derived when the evidence does not support a crisp decision. The influence of the CSE project on the evolution of the Padova program is illustrated.

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