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PBDAY. Steering Committee Meeting. Final Draft Reports. Report from the Siena Reference Centre.
No full textAuthor presents and discusses results from the Siena Reference Center ( PBDAY study) during the Steering Committee Meeting
Enhancing the Impact of Co-Creation Research: Large Scale Interventions With a Stakeholder Steering Committee for Whole System Engagement
No full textCo-creation research has the potential to produce valuable knowledge and tools, yet it often falls short of driving substantial practical changes due to insufficient engagement of the wider system. This article introduces the Large Scale Interventions (LSI) approach, designed to foster ownership and accountability for change within organisations and society. LSI integrates large group meetings with stakeholders for joint inquiry and validation alongside smaller team collaborations focused on tool development, trials, and subsequent actions for implementation. Using the "Impactful Graduation" project in Dutch Higher Professional Education as a case study, we illustrate the pivotal role of a steering committee in achieving systemic impact. By applying LSI principles also in the meetings with the steering committee, we co-created processes and tools leading to ever-widening circles of stakeholder engagement. We reflect on this project's process and outcomes using a framework for change strategies and engagement levels. Our main lessons highlight the critical importance of shared leadership and responsibility in the steering committee for all decisions, as well as in the funding phase. Additionally, ensuring sufficient resources are available to support all participants in large group meetings, particularly stakeholders who participate in their free time, can significantly enhance the effectiveness of the LSI approach
Lobbying and the International Accounting Standards Committee
No full textSystems theory and agency theory were employed as the theoretical bases for a study of
lobbying and the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) during the years
of the Core Standards Programme, 1993-98. External parties made use of formal and
informal channels to lobby the IASC. The IASC itself lobbied external parties in efforts
to gain support for its activities and proposed standards. Thus, lobbying was
multidirectional. The IASC has collaborated with both international and national
organisations, such as the International Organisation of Securities Commissions
(IOSCO), the Accounting Standards Board (ASB), the Canadian Institute of Chartered
Accountants (CICA), and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), in the
development of international accounting standards that can be utilised in cross-border
offerings and listings of securities. Thus, a principal / agent model appears too simplistic.
Rather, a mutual agency model of collaborative behavior and action appears appropriate
The impact of steering ratio variability to road profiles on driver acceptance and driving behaviour
No full textVariable steering systems have the ability to change the ratio between the steering wheel and the front wheels while driving. These adjustable steering systems have led to an improvement in traffic and road safety and decrease in driver’s workload. A previous study concludes that driver steering behaviour is significantly dependent on vehicle speed and road curvature (number and sharpness of bends). Interestingly, variable steering ratio systems often depend on speed but not on road curvature. Variable steering ratio dependent on road curvature possibly influences driving behaviour and might be desirable for safety and driver acceptance. The goal of this research is to investigate driver acceptance and driving behaviour for two separate steering ratios (1:12 and 1:40) and two different road profiles (i.e. specific curvatures straight highway and curvy country road) at a constant speed. We hypothesize that on a curvy country road low steering ratio (1:12) leads to higher safety margins and subjective ratings, whereas on a straight highway a high steering ratio (1:40) leads to higher safety margins and subjective ratings. Therefore we conducted a within-subject driving experiment (N=24) in a fixed-based passenger vehicle simulator at constant speed. The results show that on a country road a vehicle with a low steering ratio increases time-to-line- crossing (TLC) safety margins and increases self-reported subjective ratings compared to the high steering ratio setting. Likewise, on a highway, a vehicle with a high steering ratio leads to higher safety margins and comfort rating compared to a low steering ratio. Thereby it can be concluded that steering ratio variable to the road profile improves safety and acceptance. These results provide promising evidence to make steering systems adaptable to road profile (e.g. steer-by-wire and active rear wheel steering).Mechanical Engineering | Vehicle Engineering | Human Factor
A Case Study of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library Conscious Editing Steering Committee
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine the Conscious Editing Initiative and Steering Committee at the UNC Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. The project spurred from efforts in the library’s technical services department to improve inadequate description of materials in finding aids that tended to venerate white supremacists and dehumanize marginalized peoples. The steering committee, while still developing, is broadening and expanding its goals from the original re-description project. By examining the Conscious Editing Initiative and Steering Committee, exploring its development, goals, and current progress, this case study will illuminate a possible solution to addressing problematic archival description. This solution will be revealed through an examination of the literature, interviews with open-ended questions, and materials related to the committee. This study is intended to have an impact on the literature which is slowly developing in this area.Master of Science in Library Scienc
Asset measurement in the costing of government services
No full textDifferences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police services and public hospitals the results reported in this paper indicate that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small as capital costs represent a relatively small proportion of total cost.assets - asset - measurement - government services - government service provision - corrective services - police - housing - public hospitals - justice - courts
Musculoskeletal Driver Model for the Steering Feedback Controller: Investigating the influence of driving posture on the steering response
No full textHaptic feedback from the steering wheel is one of the most important cues for driver to vehicle interaction. The right feedback is provided by ensuring that the haptic controller provides the required steering feel. Steering feel assessment and design is divided into a subjective and objective approach. The subjective approach entails experiments on the proving ground during which steering parameters can be tuned by steering experts. However, using only subjective assessment is time-consuming, costly and non-repetitive. Since there is no direct method to tune the steering feel objectively, a driver model is required to find a mathematical justification in the mechanical interaction between driver and vehicle during steering. A 3-dimensional multibody arm model is constructed to investigate the influence of driving posture on the nonlinear steering response. It was found that the torque acting in the shoulder joint is higher than in the elbow. The relation between joint torque and joint angles islinear in the shoulder, whereas nonlinearities were found in the elbow joint. Nevertheless, a change of driving posture (i.e. a change of haptic interface) leads to a different steering response. Findings from the driver model were validated by two steering experiments. Muscle contraction was measured in order to analyse the forces acting on the joints.This study shows promise to lead to a different approach for tuning steering parameters. Further investigation and detailed experiments are required to convert this driver model into a method to tune steering feel objectively.Mechanical Engineerin
Prostate cancer risk stratification improvement across multiple ancestries with new polygenic hazard score
No full textBackground
Prostate cancer risk stratification using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) demonstrates considerable promise in men of European, Asian, and African genetic ancestries, but there is still need for increased accuracy. We evaluated whether including additional SNPs in a prostate cancer polygenic hazard score (PHS) would improve associations with clinically significant prostate cancer in multi-ancestry datasets.
Methods
In total, 299 SNPs previously associated with prostate cancer were evaluated for inclusion in a new PHS, using a LASSO-regularized Cox proportional hazards model in a training dataset of 72,181 men from the PRACTICAL Consortium. The PHS model was evaluated in four testing datasets: African ancestry, Asian ancestry, and two of European Ancestry—the Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM) and the ProtecT study. Hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated to compare men with high versus low PHS for association with clinically significant, with any, and with fatal prostate cancer. The impact of genetic risk stratification on the positive predictive value (PPV) of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer was also measured.
Results
The final model (PHS290) had 290 SNPs with non-zero coefficients. Comparing, for example, the highest and lowest quintiles of PHS290, the hazard ratios (HRs) for clinically significant prostate cancer were 13.73 [95% CI: 12.43–15.16] in ProtecT, 7.07 [6.58–7.60] in African ancestry, 10.31 [9.58–11.11] in Asian ancestry, and 11.18 [10.34–12.09] in COSM. Similar results were seen for association with any and fatal prostate cancer. Without PHS stratification, the PPV of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer in ProtecT was 0.12 (0.11–0.14). For the top 20% and top 5% of PHS290, the PPV of PSA testing was 0.19 (0.15–0.22) and 0.26 (0.19–0.33), respectively.
Conclusions
We demonstrate better genetic risk stratification for clinically significant prostate cancer than prior versions of PHS in multi-ancestry datasets. This is promising for implementing precision-medicine approaches to prostate cancer screening decisions in diverse populations
KAON-factory engineering design and impact study: report of the Steering Committee
No full textThis document is the concluding report of the Steering
Committee appointed by Ministers for Canada and British
Columbia under the terms of the 1988 Canada-British Columbia
Agreement on the Proposed KAON Factory Engineering
Design and Impact Study. This report summarizes the results
and findings of the complete study, full details of which are
provided in nine accompanying technical reports .
The study represents the final step in the conventional process
of developing a major science initiative for decision by
government. Where the initial concept for a KAON Factory
was put forward and developed by TRIUMF in 1985 as the
initial proposal , the current $11 million study brings together
a fully developed proposal and an assessment of its feasibility,
costs, support and implicationsTRIUMFUnreviewedResearche
Does Steering Committee Information Processing Capacity Influence Project Success in Enterprise Wide System Implementations - A Field Study
No full textOrganizations make significant investments in enterprise-wide system development--also known as enterprise resource planning (ERP). They deploy several governance mechanisms to achieve strategic goals associated with the system implementations. Yet, success in such endeavors remains elusive. To improve success rates, companies have, for some time, deployed organization-wide executive steering committees which oversee these initiatives. Still, scholars and practitioners have limited understanding of what makes these committees, if at all, successful. This study contributes to limited research on steering committees by examining engaged steering committees (in contrast to portfolio balancing committee)--which oversee enterprise-wide system implementations--success in enterprise-wide system implementations in three ways. First, founded on information processing theory this research extends how a steering committee can successfully grapple with ERP project implementations through stacking up absorptive capacity. Second, the paper develops a new process quality construct and finds that creating effective steering committee processes contributes to project success. Third, the paper finds that environmental and relationship uncertainty have a negative effect on a steering committee\u27s ability to achieve enterprise system implementation success and the level of uncertainty moderates negatively the impact of absorptive capacity. Several conclusions for practice and theory of complex system implementation governance are suggested
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