223 research outputs found
Locally managed irrigation systems: Essential tasks and implications for assistance, management transfer and turnover programs
No full textIrrigation managementIrrigation systemsIrrigation schedulingPrivatizationFarmer participationWater managementWater rightsWater allocationResource managementOrganizational dynamicsConflictCommunicationTraining
Researcher allegiance in research on psychosocial interventions: Meta-research study protocol and pilot study
No full textINTRODUCTION: One potential source of bias in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions is researcher allegiance (RA). The operationalisation of RA differs strongly across studies, and there is not a generally accepted method of operationalising or measuring it. Furthermore, it remains unclear as to how RA affects the outcomes of trials and if it results in better outcomes for a preferred intervention. The aim of this project is to develop and validate a scale that accurately identifies RA, contribute to the understanding of the impact that RA has in a research setting and to make recommendations for addressing RA in practice. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A scale will first be developed and validated to measure RA in psychotherapy trials. The scale will be validated by surveying authors of psychotherapy trials to assess their opinions, beliefs and preferences of psychotherapy interventions. Furthermore, the scale will be validated for use outside the field of psychotherapy. The validated checklist will then be used to examine two potential mechanisms of how RA may affect outcomes of interventions: publication bias (by assessing grants) and risk of bias (RoB). Finally, recommendations will be developed, and a feasibility study will be conducted at a national mental health agency in The Netherlands. Main analyses comprise inter-rater reliability of checklist items, correlations to examine the relationship between checklist items and author survey (convergent validity) as well as checklist items and trial outcomes and multivariate meta-regression techniques to assess potential mechanisms of how allegiance affects trial outcomes (publication bias and RoB). ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study has been reviewed and approved by the Scientific and Ethical Review Board (VCWE) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Study result and advancements will also be published on the Open Science Framework. Furthermore, main findings will be disseminated through articles in international peer-reviewed open access journals. Results and recommendations will be communicated to the Cochrane Collaboration, the Campbell Collaboration and other funding agencies. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. KEYWORDS: intellectual conflicts of interest; meta-analysis; methodology; outcome bias; psychotherapy depression; researcher allegiance; risk of bia
Joint contingency contracting
No full textAcquisition research (Graduate School of Business & Public Policy)MBA Professional ReportThe purpose of this Master Business Administration (MBA) Professional Report is to investigate and analyze the means by which Contingency Contracting Officers (CCO) can effectively operate in a Joint contingency environment and to validate the Defense Contract Management Agency's (DCMA) entry and exit criteria for contingency contracting missions. Joint contingencies encompass regional conflicts, humanitarian and peacekeeping missions, and international or domestic disaster relief missions supported with the immediate deployment of military forces. This research was accomplished by reviewing the current guidance, policies, and doctrine pertinent to contingency contracting operations and conducting personal interviews. The researchers conducted interviews with representatives of the Joint Staff, J4 (Logistics), each Service Component's acquisition headquarters, U.S. Central Command's J4 (Logistics), U.S. Pacific Command's J4 (Logistics, Engineering, and Security Assistance), and the DCMA to explore how contingency contracting operations are planned and executed; current issues and lessons learned; and understand the current structure/organization of Service Component and Combatant Command for accomplishing contingency contracting. Conclusions and recommendations address perceived shortfalls in the methodologies the Services use to plan, communicate, integrate and execute contingency contracting operations. Three possible solutions to these shortfalls include adoption of the Yoder Three-Tier Model, establishment of the Joint Contingency Contracting Command (JCCC), and the creation of universal language for conducting contracting in contingencies.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.http://archive.org/details/jointcontingency1094546
Book Review: Unless a Grain of Wheat: A Story of Friendship between African Independent Churches and North American Mennonites
No full text[Unless a Grain comprises a collection of reflections which grow out of collaborative ministry initiatives between African Independent Churches (AICs) and North American Mennonite missionaries and service workers from 1960 to 2020. The forty-six contributions are diverse, with each author sharing his or her experiences, insights, and challenges from the AIC/Mennonite encounter. Certain themes emerge: the importance of shared experiences of biblical study, a sense of mutuality between co-workers, and the significance of inter-confessional ministries of reconciliation. The editors are mission practitioners and scholars who are well positioned to bring us this volume. Two are North Americans with experience of ministry among AICs, and the third is a Ghanaian AIC member who serves as principal of the Good News Theological Seminary in Accra, an AIC institution. The collection is preceded by an historical overview of the Mennonite/AIC story by Wilbert R. Shenk, whose professional career included both mission history scholarship and supervision of Mennonite missionaries who worked with AICs. A bibliography of resources written by AIC and Mennonite colleagues is at the end of the volume.
Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
No full textUsing the dynamic social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. Significant contributions were made toward understanding the use of purchased goods and services in leisure activities, the growing phenomenon of serious leisure and the symbolic relationship that exists between them.The preponderance of high-tech fishing commodities in tournament bass fishing calls attention to the diverse uses and meanings individuals and groups have for their possessions. Commodities in this setting are potent social symbols whose purchase, possession and exchange convey to owners and others a myriad of diverse meanings. Commodities contribute to self and group identity, to growth through the acquisition of skills and knowledge and to the development and maintenance of a social world built around a unique ethos. Some tournament bass fishermen also use boats and equipment to display status and purchase power. In addition, producers and distributors of fishing commodities are shown to create as well as respond to demand.This research offers a revised model of serious leisure for commodity intensive activities that recognizes the role of commodities and the individuals and groups that facilitate their use. Stebbins' model of serious leisure includes the three organizational groups of professionals, amateurs and publics. However, the revised model containing three new organizational groups--commodity agents, professionals/commodity agents and amateurs/publics--offers a more complete understanding of some serious leisure activities.Finally, this research project demonstrates how various research methods may be combined to provide a more comprehensive understanding of complex social phenomena and calls for continued research in these critical areas.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:54:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Idaho Forester - 1942 (Vol. 24)
No full textIdaho Forester Staff 2
Dedication 3
Major Items in a State Forest Program for Idaho, by D. S. Jeffers 4
Need for Further Wood Processing in Northern Idaho, by R. K. Winters 7
Idaho National Forests and the Range Sheep Industry of Southern Idaho, by Mont H. Saunderson 10
The Development of Farm Forestry in Idaho, by Royale K. Pierson 12
Forestry Summer Camp, 1941, by Richard J. Campana 16
Students 18
The Idaho Foresters 23
Faculty 25
Xi Sigma Pi 28
Field Trips 29
Alumni Directory 3
Hyperfine splitting of [Al VI] 3.66 mu m and the Al isotopic ratio in NGC 6302
No full textThe core of planetary nebula NGC 6302 is filled with high-excitation photoionized gas at low expansion velocities. It represents a unique astrophysical situation in which to search for hyperfine structure (HFS) in coronal emission lines from highly ionized species. HFS is otherwise blended by thermal or velocity broadening. Spectra containing [Al vr] 3.66 mu m P-3(2) <- P-3(1), obtained with Phoenix on Gemini South at resolving powers of up to 75000, resolve the line into five hyperfine components separated by 20-60 km s(-1) as a result of the coupling of the I = 5/2 nuclear spin of Al-27 with the total electronic angular momentum J. The isotope Al-26 has a different nuclear spin of I = 5, and a different HFS, which allows us to place a 3 sigma upper limit on the Al-26/Al-27 abundance ratio of 1/33. We measure the HFS magnetic dipole coupling constants for [Al vr], and provide the first estimates of the electric quadrupole HFS coupling constants obtained through astronomical observations of an atomic transition
The Idaho Forester - 1941 (Vol. 23)
No full textIdaho Forester Staff 3
Dedication 4
Sustained Yield Therapeutics, by Emanuel Fritz 6
Taxation and Sustained Yield, by R. Clifford Hall 7
Forest Insurance and Improved Forest Practices, by H. B. Shepard 9
Transportation and Sustained Yield, by A. G. T. Moore 10
Volume of Production, by R. B. Goodman 11
Labor's Welfare in a Sustained Yield Program, by William C. Moore 14
The Proposed Cooperative Forest Restoration Act, by G. D. Cook 16
The Proposed Cooperative Forest Restoration or Leasing Bill, by Harris A. Reynolds 18
Idaho Offers Opportunity, by Franklin Girard 20
Graduating Seniors 22
Edgings for the Hopper 30
Idaho Forester Photo Contest, by Loren K. Baker 32
Spring Barbeque, by Robert E. Williams 33
Bonfire, by Richard Campana 33
Advanced Range Field Trip, by Robert E. Swanson 33
Summer Camp, by William W. Read 34
Game Management, by Thomas J. Croney 35
Junior Range Management Field Trip, by William W. Read 35
Forestry Week, by Robert E. Swanson 36
Associated Foresters, by Robert E. Williams 38
"Ten Weeks in a Daze," by William W. Read 39
Xi Sigma Pi, by Ben O. Spencer 42
Spring Field Trips, by William W. Read 43
Faculty Doings, by Robert E. Swanson 45
A True Forester 45
Senior Range Field Trip, by Robert Harris 46
Wood Utes, by Joseph Allegretti 46
Graduate Students, by Robert Harris 47
Forester Athletes, by Robert E. Swanson 48
Foresters' Ball, by Philip C. Habib 48
Obituary 50
Bureau of Missing Persons, by Richard P. Van Camp 51
Directory 54
Idaho Foresters in New England, by Walter Ward '38 68
Junior Smoker, by Richard Campana 73
Alumnus-Do You Hunt, Fish, and Trap?, by James B. Lewis 7
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