scholarly journals Information As a Strategic Contingency: Applying the Strategic Contingencies Theory of Intraorganizational Power to Academic Libraries

1997 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
Bases Of Power ◽  
Correlation Analyses ◽  
Strategic Contingencies Theory

This research examines the changes that electronic information technologies have caused on power within organizations. Based on the strategic contingencies theory of intraorganizational power, a model of organizational power is developed and tested. Major features of the model include a technology index, subunit power variables, environmental variables, and bases of power variables (structure, coping with uncertainty, centrality, and substitutability). According to canonical correlation analyses, changes in library automation and changes in the environment are related to changes in both the bases of power variables and power itself. The bases of power, in turn, are related to changes in the power of the library as measured by the percent of the institutional budget allocated to the library, the number of library positions, and the perception of power.

scholarly journals Morphometric variation among males of Orphulella punctata (De Geer, 1773) (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) from different biomes in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Ana Catia Santos da Silva ◽  
Lorena Andrade Nunes ◽  
Wanessa de Lima Batista ◽  
Marcos Gonçalves Lhano
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Dorsal View ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Hind Femur ◽  
Morphometric Variation ◽  
Correlation Analyses ◽  
Pearson's Correlation ◽  
Shape And Size

The objective of the present study was to examine variation in the shape and size of pronotum, hind femur, and head in the males of Orphulellapunctata (De Geer, 1773) from three different Brazilian biomes: the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, and the Pantanal. A total of 150 specimens were analyzed from three populations. The results of MANOVA indicated significant differences (p<0.01) in the shape of the analyzed structures of O.punctata from the different biomes. The results of ANOVA demonstrated significant differences (p<0.05) in the size of all analyzed structures. Pearson’s correlation analyses among the different structures and the environmental variables revealed that the shape of pronotum, hind femur, and head (dorsal view), as well as the size of pronotum and head (dorsal and lateral views) varied with the geographic longitude, while the shape of hind femur and head (dorsal view) showed a significant negative correlation with size. Results indicated that the shape and size of the analyzed structures, in general, were influenced by the geographical variables.

Academic Libraries in Partnership With the Government Publishing Office

2020 ◽  
pp. 1411-1434
Author(s):  
Barbara Costello
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Government Information ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Information Preservation ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government

The implementation of the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-40) brought the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) fully into the digital age. The transition has created expected and unexpected changes to the way the Government Publishing Office (GPO) administers the FDLP and, in particular, to the relationships between the GPO and academic depository libraries. Innovative partnerships, use of emerging technologies to manage and share collections, and greater flexibility on the part of the GPO have given academic depository libraries a prominent and proactive role within the depository program. Newly announced initiatives from the GPO, the National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information and the Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) potentially could either increase academic depository libraries' collaboration with the FDLP and the likelihood that they will remain in the program, or accelerate the rate at which academic depositories are dropping depository status.

scholarly journals The Psychological Interface between the Coach-Created Motivational Climate and the Coach-Athlete Relationship in Team Sports

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alkisti Olympiou ◽  
Sophia Jowett ◽  
Joan L. Duda
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Correlation Analyses ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship

The study’s objective was to investigate the motivational significance of the coach-athlete relationship in team sports. 591 athletes completed the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (Newton, Duda, & Yin, 2000) to assess perceptions of the coach-created motivational climate and two Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaires to assess direct perceptions (Jowett & Ntoumanis, 2004) and meta-perceptions (Jowett, in press) of the relationship quality. Canonical correlation analyses revealed that the perceived task-involving features of the coaching climate, in which role importance, co-operation, and improvement are emphasized, were associated with experiencing higher levels of closeness, commitment, and complementarity with the coach. Perceptions of the ego-involving features of the coach-created environment which emphasizes punitive responses to mistakes, rivalry, and unequal recognition were associated with lower levels of perceived closeness, commitment, and complementarity with the coach. These results support the notion that the coach-athlete relationship has implications for the motivation of athletes participating in team sports.

Factors influencing physician use of clinical electronic information technologies after adoption by their medical group practices

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Kralewski ◽  
Bryan E. Dowd ◽  
Titilope Cole-Adeniyi ◽  
Dave Gans ◽  
Lucy Malakar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Medical Group ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Group Practices ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Medical Group Practices

scholarly journals Study of the influence of temperature and water level of the reservoir about the displacement of a concrete dam

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.R. Oro ◽  
T.R. Mafioleti ◽  
A. Chaves Neto ◽  
S.R.P. Garcia ◽  
C. Neumann Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Water Level ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Concrete Dam ◽  
Influence Of Temperature ◽  
Dam Foundations ◽  
Tank Water

Abstract Multivariate techniques are used in this study to analyze the monitoring data displacements of a concrete dam, measured by means of pendulums, extensometer bases and multiple rod extensometers, taking into account the action of environmental conditions, bounded by the surface temperature of the concrete at ambient temperature and the tank water level. The canonical correlation analysis is used to evaluate the influence of environmental variables in the displacement of structures and dam foundations. The factor analysis is used to identify data sources of variability and order the sensors according to the action of factors. The dates of the measurements are grouped according to similarities in the present observations, by applying the cluster analysis. Then the discriminant analysis is used to assess the groups as to their homogeneity. The results demonstrate that the techniques used for distinguishing the dam responses and identify the effects of changes in environmental conditions on the displacements of the structures and dam foundations.

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