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Cross border crisis management concept : Establishing cooperation measures between Dutch and German veterinary authorities in animal disease control
Get PDFThe objective of this thesis consisted in the development of cross border cooperation management in animal disease control. Particularly, the experiences and intentions of public and private stakeholders have been identified and inluded in this research in order to find out to what degree cross border cooperation can be regarded as a benefit to national animal disease control strategies. By means of a case study, the research activities were focussed on Dutch and German experts on Classical Swine Fever control. Based on the results, a Cross border cooperation concept has been developed that provides veterinary authorities with a standardization of all steps that have to be taken for the preparation and evaluation of cross border cooperation measures. This study was provided with a multi‐disciplinary approach. Elements from different scientific disciplines have been combined to an integrated concept. Initially, expert elicitation methods have been used to collect data and information on the subject of interest. Relevant stakeholders have been interviewed before an expert survey was made to validate the results. In the following section of the thesis the prosperity of cross border animal disease control was illustrated by means of quantitative simulation. The aim of this study was to compare the epidemiological and the economic effects of recent strategies against livestock diseases with cross border cooperation strategies. The main findings of this chapter give insight in the basic differences in CSF control in the Dutch German border area. The aim of the next chapter was to contribute to a standardization of data and information transfer in cross border crisis management. The guidelines presented in this section were developed in order to improve the identification of data or information gaps while preparing cross border cooperation plans for crisis management. In a second step these gaps had to be repaired before cross border cooperation could be implemented into national animal disease regulation. The concept combines decision theory, information theory, quality management and innovation theory to an integrated approach. A central result is the definition of fact sheets for all stakeholders concerned in information transfer activities. These instructions refer to the tasks and benefits each actor has in order to make information transfer possible. In the final section of this study a Cross border crisis management concept was developed as a supporting tool for veterinary authorities. The design of this concept has been described in several sequences and its capabilities have been illustrated in a single case study. As a core result, the evaluation of this crisis management concept made clear how benefits of cross border cooperation can be implemented and, at the same time, how to deal with a variety of limiting factors that are standing in the way of a successful implementation. Finally, the standardization of cross border crisis management by means of an integrated concept is highly recommended, but stakeholders have to participate and decide for official agreements in normal times. As soon as a crisis is at hand, there is no more room for debate about cross border cooperation. The majority of Dutch and German stakeholders support the principle of cross border cooperation in animal disease control. But, the findings of this research show that in every single cooperation plan the benefits always depend on the perspective a stakeholder has on this very subject. Thus, crisis management cooperation is a dynamic process that needs systematic innovation.Konzept für grenzüberschreitendes Krisenmanagement - Einrichtung von Kooperationsmaßnahmen zwischen deutschen und niederländischen Veterinärbehörden in der Tierseuchenbeherrschung Die Zielsetzung der Dissertation bestand in der Bewertung von grenzüberschreitenden Maßnahmen zur Tierseuchenbeherrschung. Insbesondere die Einbeziehung von Erfahrungen und Absichten der verantwortlichen Entscheidungsträger aus Behörde und Privatwirtschaft waren von Bedeutung wenn es um die Beurteilung des Nutzens von grenzüberschreitenden Kooperationsmaßnahmen im Vergleich zu rein nationalen Strategien ging. Im Rahmen einer Fallstudie an den deutschen und niederländischen Vorkehrungen zur Beherrschung der Klassischen Schweinepest wurden exemplarisch Erkenntnisse zum Aufbau von grenzüberschreitenden Kooperationsmaßnahmen gewonnen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Ergebnisse wurde abschließend ein grenzüberschreitendes Kooperationskonzept entwickelt, das die Veterinärbehörden zur standardisierten Vorbereitung und Validierung von gemeinsamen Beherrschungsmaßnahmen verwenden sollen. Diese Studie basiert auf einem multi-disziplinären Ansatz. Elemente aus verschiedenen akademischen Diszipline wurden vereinbart zu einem integrierten Konzept. Einleitend wurden zunächst Methoden zur qualitativen Datenerhebung verwendet. Alle relevanten Entscheidungsträger wurden befragt, bevor zur Validierung der erhobenen Daten eine breite Expertenumfrage lanciert wurde. Im folgenden Arbeitsschritt der Dissertation wurden die Erfolgsaussichten von grenzüberschreitender Kooperation in der Tierseuchenbeherrschung anhand quantitativer Simulationsmodelle untersucht. Zielsetzung dieser Untersuchung war es, die epidemiologischen und wirtschaftlichen Effekte aus aktuellen Tierseuchenbeherrschungsstrategien zu vergleichen mit den Auswirkungen grenzüberschreitender Maßnahmen. Die Erkenntisse aus diesem Abschnitt geben einen differenzierten Eindruck, welche Vor- und Nachteile grenzüberschreitende Maßnahmen für die beteiligten Entscheidungsträger bieten. Die Zielsetzung des nächsten Kapitels war die Entwicklung eines Leitfadens zur standardisierten Erfassung von entscheidungsrelevanten Daten und Informationstransfers im grenzüberschreitenden Krisenmanagement. Vor dem Hintergrund der Annahme, dass der Mangel an Daten und Informationen eine prominente Ursache für das Scheitern von Entscheidungsprozessen ist, wurde ein Konzept erstellt, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Identifikation und Behebung von Datenlücken verbessern lässt. Das Konzept vereint Elemente aus der Entscheidungstheorie, des Qualitätsmanagements und der Innovationstheorie. Zu den zentralen Ergebnissen zählte die Bereitstellung von Handlungsinstruktionen für alle am Entscheidungsprozess beteiligten Akteure. Auf dieser Grundlage wurden den Entscheidungstägern konkrete Aufgaben zugeteilt, die zur Überbrückung der Informationsdefizite und somit zur Umsetzung des Kooperationsprozesses erforderlich waren. Im Schlußkapitel dieser Studie wurde das grenzüberschreitende Kooperationskonzept vorgestellt. In mehreren Stufen wurden die zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen bei der Vorbereitung von Kooperationsmaßnahmen anhand eines Fallbeispiels erläutert. Die Auswertung des Konzeptes zeigte, in welcher Weise sich Vorteile aus grenzüberschreitender Zusammenarbeit erzielen lassen ohne gleichzeitig bei der Implementierung der entwickelten Maßnahme an vorhersehbaren limitierenden Faktoren zu scheitern. Abschließend konnte festgehalten werden, dass ein standardisiertes Konzept zur Vorbereitung grenzüberschreitender Kooperationsmaßnahmen in der Tierseuchenbeherrschung unter den in dieser Studie genannten Bedingungen zu empfehlen ist. Von wesentlicher Bedeutung ist dabei die Beteilgung von Entscheidungsträgern, da diese in krisenfreien Zeiten verbindliche Absprachen zur Kooperation treffen müssen. Erfolgt dies nicht, sind die Kooperationsmöglichkeiten im Krisenfall gering. In dieser Dissertation wurde zudem bewiesen, dass deutsche und niederländische Experten das Prinzip der grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit stark befürworten. Es zeigte sich allerdings auch, dass jede neue Kooperationsmaßnahme jeweils aus den unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der verschiedenen Akteure bewertet wird. Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation im Krisenmanagemtn ist nicht zuletzt daher ein dynamischer Prozess, der von systemischer Innovation begleitet werden muss
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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