93 research outputs found
Enhancing Change in Creative Sessions at LEF Future Center
No full textChange can be defined as deliberate activities that move an organisation from its present state to a desired future state (Harigopal, 2016). A form of facilitating change is to organise a creative session, which is a group process of applied creativity with the ultimate goal to create a product. The product is the desired future state of a creative session and does not have to be tangible. Most importantly, the product has to be further developed or implemented after the creative session in order to achieve a successful process of change.LEF Future Center facilitates breakthroughs by organising creative sessions for the Dutch Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat). LEF is the context of the research and the aim of this thesis is to enhance change in their creative sessions. The scope of this research is set on creative sessions of which the problem owner desires an outcome that requires implementation into the associated organisation.First, complete understanding is created on how a creative session facilitates change. Organisational change management and integrated Creative Problem Solving (iCPS) were compared in a literature review. Revealing that iCPS follows similar steps to organisational change management. Afterwards participant observations complemented the research to understand how LEF facilitates change in sessions. The most promising opportunities that resulted from the research are; (1) Ensure a thorough understanding of the problem as given by the problem owner. (2) Define and phrase the goal of the session. (3) Compose a diverse and balanced resource group. (4) Document creative sessions. (5) Inform the problem owner on its role as a change leader.To ultimately influence the implementation of change over the full process, the design focuses on the beginning of the LEF-process. The intake meeting is chosen as the specific context for the design.Considering this meeting could educate all partakers on their respective roles regarding the goal of the creative session, whilst engaging in all elements of an intake meeting. The partakers of an intake meeting are the facilitator, problem owner and account manager.The final design resulted from three evaluation sessions, performed during actual intake sessions at LEF. The Intake Session is the new form of starting the preparations of a LEF-session.The Intake Session is a combination of context specific table and clear instructions, which supports all partakers to fulfil the meeting in three phases. The first phase is introductory. The second phase critically identifies the purpose and reason for the LEF-session. Hereby the partakers give shape to the LEF-session together. The tangible aspects of the table, remind the partakers of all intake elements. During the third phase of the Intake Session, all partakers will evaluate what is in their power to reach the goal of the session and wrap-up with a picture of all that has been written on the tabletop. The physical aspects of the Intake Session fit with LEF’s identity and support all partakers. LEF is aware of their prominent opportunities to enhance change. However, LEF lacks a sufficient intake where these opportunities are used. The ‘Intake Session’ provides an essential physical and visual reminder of how to make a good start in the LEF-process, so LEF can flourish during the creative session and facilitate a breakthrough
Introduction of a truck over 3.5 tons into the Lef spol. s.r.o. fleet
No full textTato bakalářská práce se zabývá zavedením vozidla nad 3,5 tuny do vozového parku výrobce knedlíků, těst a příloh Lef spol. s.r.o. V analytické části autor zanalyzuje aktuální vozový park a jeho využití pro expedici výrobků. Dále pak autor popíše nároky na expedici výrobků pro určité zákazníky pomocí externího dopravce. Práce popíše postup pro zavedení velkých nákladních vozidel. Autor navrhne vhodné silniční vozidlo vzhledem k požadavkům expedice a jeho vhodné použití pro expedici výrobků včetně všech náležitostí. Nakonec autor definuje výhody a nevýhody provozování vlastního vozidla.This Bachelor thesis deals with the introduction of vehicle over 3.5 tons into the fleet of the manufacturer of dumplings, doughs and annexes Lef spol. s.r.o. In the analytical section, the author analyses the current fleet and its use for product dispatch. Next, the author will describe the claims of shipping products to certain customers using an external carrier. The work will describe the procedure for the introduction of large trucks. The author shall design an appropriate road vehicle due to the requirements of the expedition and its appropriate use for the dispatch of products, including all particulars. Finally, the author defines the advantages and disadvantages of running your own vehicle.Dopravní fakulta Jana PerneraStudent přednesl ucelenou a logicky uspořádanou obhajobu své bakalářské práce. V ní dokázal přesvědčivým způsobem obhájit závěry svých řešení. Na doplňkové otázky reagoval pohotově, se znalostí věci a bez závažných nepřesností je zodpověděl.Dokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Premier Stewart, A.G. McKay, F.R. Falconer, A.C. McKay, and others in front of Athabasca Station
No full textPhotograph - A group of men in front of the station building, Athabasca, Alberta. A train is on the lef
Capt. Haight and W. Johnson
No full textPhotograph - A group of men sitting eating outside. Seated on the right is Capt. Haight and W. Johnson, engineer on the SS Wrigley, is standing on the lef
Denise Monson - 02
No full textPhotograph - A man and a girl outside Al Cramer's store at Lac La Biche, Alberta. Sled dogs are visible on the lef
Athabasca RNWMP Detachment
No full textPhotograph - Athabasca RNWMP Detachment, Athabasca, Alberta. Inspector Anderson in charge. Front row, second from left is Arthur Howard Llewelyn Mellor, Major McDonnell, centre front with Sergeant Bosange on his lef
Endogenous GAC63 is recruited to TCF/LEF-responsive promoter region upon LiCl treatment
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Role of GAC63 in transcriptional activation mediated by β-catenin"</p><p></p><p>Nucleic Acids Research 2007;35(6):2084-2092.</p><p>Published online 7 Mar 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1874623.</p><p>© 2007 The Author(s)</p> () RKO cells were treated with different concentrations of LiCl for 45 min. Cell extracts were tested by immunoblotting using anti-β-catenin antibody. () RKO cells were grown with or without 50 mM LiCl for 45 min and analyzed by chromain immunoprecipitation assays, using the indicated antibodies for immunoprecipitation. The immunoprecipitated DNA was amplified by PCR using primers to amplify the promoter region of gene and a region 3.6 kb upstream. Results shown are representative of two independent experiments. () QPCR analysis of immunoprecipitated RKO cell chromosomal DNA using primers for the TCF/LEF binding region of gene was performed with 2 µl samples. The results are shown as percentage of input, are the mean and S.D. from triplicate reactions, and are representative of two independent experiments. () PCR analysis of immunoprecipitated RKO cell chromosomal DNA using primers for the promoter regions of and genes. Results shown are representative of two independent experiments
Capturing creativity: The design of a toolkit for revergence in creative sessions
No full textCreative facilitation sessions come to solve the complex problems the world is facing nowadays. Using participants from different work areas to walk through a problem together, these sessions are guided by facilitators. They are the ones expected to bring a creative mindset to the involved people. LEF Future Center, part of Rijkswaterstaat since 2008, brings a contribution to the power of change and the problem-solving capacity of their stakeholders. They have a set of creative environments to properly stimulate participants during the facilitation sessions. This project, done in combination between TU Delft and LEF Future Center, focuses on supporting participants’ creativity during sessions at LEF. The creative diamond (Guilford, 1950) is the basis approach\u2028for facilitation sessions, distinguishing between participants’ divergence and convergence thinking. During the first, many ideas are generated, while comes to a final idea/decision when converging. It is common to let participants make use of different means to generate ideas, like whiteboards, sticking notes, and markers.\u2028It is known that people might underrate their own creativity, and the facilitators' work is to facilitate participants’ creativity. Written, visual and verbal communication is important to let participants express their ideas to each other during sessions. Besides the classical creative diamond, newer studies have shown the need to differentiate\u2028a step in-between the divergence and convergence phases (eg. Tassaul and Buijs; Kaner; Heijne and Smit). It is called revergence and aims to revisit and rearrange every generated idea during the divergence, by making clusters. A literature study was executed to investigate further developments in the creative diamond approach, as well as what influence people’s creativity. At LEF, facilitators let participants generate as\u2028many ideas as possible (when diverging), and to come up with a final solution to the indicated problem (when converging). Further investigation with context observations and interviews with facilitators was performed. It was confirmed that not every facilitator does the converging phase of the session, and that many are not aware\u2028of the reverging as a separate stage from converging. In the end, clusters of ideas can be created in a messy mean, leading to deliverables for clients that may not show the full creative potential of the session. As a way to stimulate participants’ generation of ideas and the creation of clusters, the design of the tool thus focuses on supporting facilitators to perform the revergence phase of sessions. Joining findings from both the literature review and context mapping, a promising direction was identified in the use of combination tools for the three phases of the sessions. Using rapid prototyping tests\u2028of the tools, a toolkit structure for performing the reverging phase was designed: the Clustalk toolkit.Design for Interactio
Indirect response to selection for improving resistance to the Mediterranean corn borer (Sesamia nonagrioides Lef) in maize
No full text21 Pag., 2 Tabl. The definitive version is available at www.springerlink.comMediterranean corn borer (MCB) (Sesamia nonagrioides Lef) and European corn borer (ECB) (Ostrinia nubilalis Hbn) are the most important biotic stresses of maize in Europe. The first selection program to improve stalk resistance to MCB was carried out in the maize population EPS12. It has shown that selection was effective to improve stalk resistance to MCB and ECB, while yield was not significantly diminished. The objective of this research was to determine if correlated changes in EPS12 occurred due to selection for resistance to MCB. Cycles of selection per se and testcrosses to three testers were evaluated under MCB and ECB artificial infestation at two different Spanish locations during 2 years. Selection has significantly reduced cob damage, days to silking, plant and ear height, and 100-kernel weight; meanwhile early vigor was increased. These changes could rather be a consequence of unconscious selection and/or the genetic correlation of these traits with resistance than a consequence of genetic drift.Research supported by the Plan Nacional I+D+I (AGL2003-00961 and AGL2006-1314). G. Sandoya acknowledges a fellowship from the Ministry of the Education and Science that allowed him to carry out this study; part of this study is a thesis by the senior author for the Ph.D. degree.Peer reviewe
Collaborating with Communities: A Stedin service enabling Local Energy Communities to become their own electricity supplier
No full textThe energy grid is transitioning from a centrally controlled demand response system to a decentralized supply response system. There are multiple reasons for this, but the main one is the need to transition to a low carbon energy system to tackle climate change and decrease our dependency on non-renewable energy sources. Next to this consumers become active consumers (prosumers) and increasingly take control over their local (energy) situation. As a result this transition creates a multitude of challenges and demands a re-design of the energy system. Stedin, the Netherlands 3rd largest Distribution System Operator (DSO), set out to find a solution to the challenges posed by the energy transition. The concept they came up with was a design for a Layered Energy System (LES). By running two pilots LES is fully developed and almost ready to be made available for the larger public in the form of a re-branding of LES to Lokaal Energy Flexibel (LEF). However, how LEF should be made available remains unknown. So in order for LEF to be launched to a larger public a new service needs to be designed. A service that sets out to communicate the information which is needed to start your own Local Energy Community (LEC) and collaboratively with Stedin and a service provider of choice set up a LEC. Designing this service is the task set out to solve in this project. One other task is determining what the role of Stedin should be in this process of setting up a LEC. The dilemma is Stedin wants to facilitate LECs and the market but on the other hand should not in turn take over responsibilities of the market. The methodology used to solve the aforementioned problem is service design. A concept service design is made that sets out to help communities explore how to set up a LEC. The design is centered around a community dashboard that shows the current energy situation within a community. All the data found in this dashboard can then also be used in a community configurator to create an ideal design for the local situation and community vision. This design is then communicated to Stedin in the form of a project sketch. Stedin can give feedback or a ‘go’ on the project sketch. This ends the explore phase, after which a LEC can turn to the market for materializing the design. The concept service is communicated with a future service scenario and a service blueprint. Out of this service blueprint the LEF landing page and the community configurator are prototyped and tested with potential users. After testing the solution and direction proved to be in the right direction. However a ‘dumb’ configurator as tested was found challenging for the typical community leader. This result vouches for a more data driven and automated configurator as proposed in the future service scenario. The thesis is concluded with a roadmap for implementation and advice on how to create an MVP as the first step towards implementing the service design.Strategic Product Desig
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