44 research outputs found
The transformation of news : An exploratory study of digital and analog news in the Swedish daily press
No full textTitle: The transformation of news - an exploratory study of digital and analog news in the Swedish daily press. Author: Annika Arnell and Sofia Amanuel Tutor: Lowe Hedman Purpose: This explorative thesis attempts to study if new ways of news production and distribution created by recent digitalization processes and technical development has different impacts and effects when the same news events is published in the same daily newspaper in a digital as compared to an analog platform. Method/Material: The method used is an explorative qualitative content analysis. The articles are divided into three levels: main news, middle-sized news and notes. The material consists of 40 news articles from two Swedish daily newspapers, with a divide of 20 news articles per newspaper. Main results: This study demonstrates that there are differences in how a news article is formed in a digital as compared to an analog platform. The differences show that main news events are presented in the exact same way on both platforms. The smaller notes show vast differences in all categories and are often fuller on the digital platform, leaving information such as context and previous events out in the printed newspaper. The middle-sized news shows both similarities and differences. But the results are to varying to make any conclusive statement. Number of pages: 76 Course: Media and Communication studies C University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of information science, Uppsala University Period: Fall 2013 Keywords: digitalization, information technology, convergence, media logic, news schemata, news, daily newspaper, journalism, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet
Short Guide to Climate Change Risk
No full textClimate change poses a risk to business operations and to markets, and a poor business response to this risk can lead to reputational damage, or worse. At the same time, climate change can bring opportunities for some businesses. In this addition to Gower's series of Short Guides to Business Risk, Professor Arnell, one of the world's leading experts in the field, reviews this critical area of risk posed to businesses and other organisations by climate change and considers how they can respond to this threat. A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk focuses on the impacts and consequences of climate change rather than on business use of energy or business and 'sustainability' issues. The author examines the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to addressing these risks, with international case study examples. With chapters on the nature, science and politics of climate change, on the assessment and management of climate change risks, and recommendations for incorporating climate change risks into a Company Risk Management System, this concise guide serves the needs of business students and practitioners across a wide range of sectors, public and privat
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Comparison of factors associated with failure in grade I, of the Annie E. Daniels Elementary School, Sylvania, Georgia, 1956-1957, 1958
No full textAnalysis of Rainfall Data for Use in Design of Storm Sewer Systems
No full textThe paper describes a comparison of calculated storm water discharges with two kinds of rainfall data: design rainfalls developed from intensity-duration-frequency relationships or from measured rainfall data and real measured time series of rainfalls or time series generated by statistical methods. These two rainfall approaches have been compared by simulation of the runoff by a runoff model for a 0.154 km2 catchment area, Bergsjön, in Göteborg, Sweden. Data from two years of rainfall-runoff measurements have been analysed. Different types of design rainfalls have been derived and the 40 heaviest real rainfalls have been selected for simulations. The statistical analysis of the simulated peak flows shows that the real rainfalls give the best results. The conclusion is that the use of design rainfalls give a more uneven dimensioning of storm sewer systems. With real rainfalls it is possible to make a design from a statistical point of view and to find out what happens at discharges with frequencies lower than the design frequency
California\u27s MICRA: The Need for Legislative Reform
No full textThis Comment examines the effects of the tort reform provisions of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA). The author argues that MICRA divests medical malpractice victims of the traditional protections governing personal injury litigation, while granting broad immunity to negligent health care providers. The author examines the discriminatory effects created by MICRA and argues that its sweeping tort reforms undermine California\u27s policy of fault-based liability. The author concludes by calling on the California legislature to amend MICRA and provides several suggestions for revision
Change that Respects Business Expertise: Stories as Prompts for a Conversation about Organisation Security
No full textLeaders of organisations must make investment decisions relating to the security of their organisation. This often happens through consultation with a security specialist. Consultations may be regarded as conversations taking place in a trading zone between the two domains. We propose that supporting the trading zone is a route to sustainable, workable security change improvements. Prompts for such improvements are already in place, in the security stories that reach business leaders through news media, or anecdotes from trusted peers. However, a shift in perspective is needed to view these stories and anecdotes as prompts for individual decision makers to enter into the trading zone with security specialists. We illustrate how to facilitate this shift by recasting security ontology tools, previously centred around security-specific expertise, as a support device to enrich conversations between business expertise and security advice toward finding workable security choices. We frame our proposal within a broader view of community transformation, exploring the important principle of identifying practical opportunities to inform discussions about security solutions that are appropriate in the business context. Community-level discussions have potential to lead to more lasting, effective improvements than those instigated by one-way interventions from security specialists. We extend the view, applying the paradigm to articulate the importance of two-way conversations between business peers and security specialists.Organisation & Governanc
The new crimes of bribery in Scotland.
No full textIntroduction. The Bribery Act 2010, enacted in the wash-up prior to the dissolution of Parliament, will completely change in the Scots law on bribery. As discussed in The Crime of Bribery in Scotland 2009 SLT 1 by present author a number of criticisms have been directed at the previous law and practice on bribery. These relate to the opacity of the law itself and its apparent conflict with the United Kingdom's international obligations. In regard to the latter, the OECD stated in a report published in October 2008 that it was ...disappointed and seriously concerned with the unsatifactory implementation of the Convention [on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions] by the UK. The continued failure of the UK to address deficiencies in its laws on bribery of foreign public officials and on corporate liability for foreign bribery has hindered investigations. Both the objective deficiencies of the law on bribery and its putative non-conformity with international law are addressed by the Act
Multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-140).The past year has seen the emergence of the shared electric scooter: a new form of micro-mobility in the United States. Electric scooters embody many of the historic trends and contradictions endemic to innovation and marginalization in the transportation space. Researchers and policy-makers are faced with a number of unanswered questions about who travels on scooters and what factors might influence when and how they are used. Hexagonal spatial binning feeds a series of spatial lag models to identify explanatory environmental and demographic variables for trip characteristics. These models reveal that employment density and the location of rebalance points are among the strongest indicators of scooter activity overall, but show significant variation when models are subsetted by time of day. The Communities of Concern framework, adapted from the Association of Bay Area Governments, provides a regionally-sensitive index of relative marginalization to undergird the analysis. These findings are placed in context with transportation justice and broad outlines of current e-scooter policy. Additionally, a framework for examining mode shift potential using Open Trip Planner is discussed, and preliminary results are described. Use patterns are also analyzed by time and in relation to contemporaneous weather.by Bernard Maxwell Arnell.M.C.P.M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Plannin
