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Landowners' perceptions on coordinated wildlife and groundwater management in the Edwards PlateauLimesand, Craig Milton 30 October 2006 (has links)
Since Texas contains less than 5% public land, private landowners are critical to
the success of environmental management initiatives in the state. This has implications
for resources that traverse property boundaries, such as wildlife and groundwater. Texas
landowners are increasingly capitalizing on the income potential of fee-based hunting,
and many have banded together to form Wildlife Management Associations (WMAs).
Not only can such landowner associations enhance the coordination of resource
management decisions, they also have the potential to increase social capital, which is
reflected by interpersonal trust, reciprocity and civic participation. To improve the
management of common-pool resources it is important to understand the relationship
between social capital and coordinated resource management because long-term
community stability and resource sustainability appear to be highly correlated.
A 600-landowner mail survey (with 48.1% response) was conducted in the
Edwards Plateau region of Texas to compare the land management characteristics and
social capital of landowners who are members of WMAs with non-member landowners.
The goal of this research was to determine how WMA membership, property size, and
location affect levels of social capital and interest in cooperative resource management. It was hypothesized that members, large landowners, and northern landowners would be
more interested in cooperative management and exhibit higher social capital.
While WMA members and large-property owners were more involved in wildlife
management than non-members and small-property owners, this interest in resource
management did not carry over to groundwater. These groups were not more involved
in groundwater management activities, and all survey groups were disinterested in
joining private cooperatives for groundwater marketing.
Social capital differences were more evident between large- and small-property
owners than between WMA members and non-members. Members scored higher only
on community involvement, while large owners scored higher on community
involvement as well as trust. These results suggest that WMA membership per se does
not significantly increase social capital among Edwards Plateau landowners, but do not
necessarily refute the importance of social capital within WMAs. Differences in trust
between members were positively correlated with increased communication and meeting
frequency, suggesting ways WMAs can improve intra-association social capital.
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Polysemy, Plurality, & Paradigms: The Quixotic Quest for Commensurability of Ethics and Professionalism in the Practices of LawEngel, Eric Paul 01 January 2013 (has links)
According to many, the legal industry is currently suffering from a professionalism problem. The following dissertation is a response to the question, "What can be done about incivility in the practice of law in Florida?" It begins by exploring the literature examining ethics and professionalism, specifically focusing on the role communication plays in the production and reification of patterns of meaning and action. After contextualizing the professionalism problem socio-culturally and historically, the dissertation next provides an overview of some relevant aspects of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (a theoretical communication framework employed to help make sense of the existing state of affairs) and examines how legal scholars and practitioners can begin to communicate their way out of the problem. Following the literature review, the dissertation outlines four research questions and addresses the study's use of the World Cafe design principles and methodology for examining the "professionalism problem." Finally, the dissertation concludes by relating four key findings and an observation as well as addressing five ways in which the research has practical and theoretical implications.
In embracing CMM to analyze the conversational patterns and practices of law as they relate to ethics and professionalism, this research theoretically aligns primarily with the sociocultural tradition with some critical and cybernetic overtones. While there are many ways one might examine the professionalism problem, CMM offers an exemplary lens with which to both analyze the problem and proffer a discursive pathway out of the problem. From a communication perspective, the problematics of ethics and professionalism in the practice of law can be understood to originate in the inherent polysemy of language and the incommensurability of moral orders deriving from alternative forms of communication.
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A Multiple Method Longitudinal Study of Gifted Adolescents’ Communication of and about Ostracism and Social ExclusionStriley, Catherine M. January 2014 (has links)
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Coordinated management of resource allocations and application quality of service level adaptation for real-time systemsJain, Shikha January 2002 (has links)
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A case study of community response to a health crisis from a communication perspectiveGoodin, Lisann 11 1900 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The city of Austin is a small community in Southern Indiana that experienced a large HIV/AIDS outbreak which infected over 180 people. Due to rapid spread of the disease from shared needles during intravenous drug use, a public health emergency was declared in March 2015. This epidemic was a symptom of the overall communal health issues within the area related to drugs, crime, prostitution and poverty. These problems affect residents’ physical and mental health, however, often go unaddressed due to limited resources, healthcare and education. Organizations within the area were affected by the epidemic, and many provided a response to help combat the issue. The purpose of this study is to examine how organizations respond to a health crisis from a communication perspective.
Research question one is, what was the level of coordination between the seven organizations during the HIV/AIDS epidemic? Research question two is, what was the public’s response to the effort made by the seven organizations? This study interviewed seven participants and a thematic analysis was conducted that discovered four themes: coordinated response, uncoordinated activities, response time, and inadequate response. In response to research question one, the levels of coordination were infrequent with the seven agencies. Research question two found multiple areas that indicated the agencies approach ineffective in adequately informing the public. The agencies’ efforts displayed a lack of coordination and poor timely response to the crisis.
These issues show it is imperative that we develop a resilient health system to operate systemically. By implementing communication for whole health, it would provide a resilient system for agencies to understand and develop coordination and collaboration between each other. With a sense of coordination, they would then be able to execute ways of promoting and living out better physical and mental health (Parrish-Sprowl and Parrish-Sprowl, 2016).
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Resources at Risk: The Coordinated Management of Meaning and Study AbroadNoblet, Nicholas Patrick 16 March 2012 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study seeks to elucidate the concept of resources at risk as detailed in the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) theoretical framework. Risk is the possibility that a communicator’s resources are in jeopardy of change, and this study seeks to explicate how a communicator places his or her resources at risk. An undergraduate spring break study abroad program was selected as the context for this examination, with six students participating in before and after interviews. Results showed that three types of resources at risk were identified, with a fourth type unable to be identified through transcript analysis. This study demonstrates theoretical and practical implications that further the understanding of CMM and its execution. In addition, limitations and areas for future research are discussed.
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Communication across cultures and its implications: the case of black indigenous Zambians and white western migrants living in ZambiaSilungwe, Wilson January 2014 (has links)
Communication / MA (Communication)
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Communication across cultures and its implications: the case of black indigenous Zambians and white western migrants living in ZambiaSilungwe, Wilson January 2014 (has links)
The overarching aim of this study was to explore the similarities and differences in communication and other cultural practices in encounters between black indigenous Zambians and white Western migrants living in Zambia and the implications of these similarities and differences.
The research adopted a qualitative research design, and focus group discussions were used as a data collection tool, using a video recorder to capture the discussions. The focus group comprised of 6 black indigenous Zambians and 6 white Westerners. The collected data was then transcribed from the video records and analysed using thematic analysis.
The conclusion to this study is that the culture of black indigenous Zambians and that of white Westerners have both similarities and differences as far as communication practices and other practices are concerned. These similarities and differences influence communication encounters between the people of the two cultures either positively or negatively rendering communication either effective or non-effective. / Communication / MA (Communication)
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Coordinated management of urban wastewater systems by means of advanced environmental decision support systemsMurlà Tuyls, Damián 17 May 2013 (has links)
In the last decades and due to the Water Framework Directive implementation, the urban wastewater cycle management has become more complex. The concept of integrated urban wastewater system management is introduced, and it becomes necessary to consider some new data as the sewer system characteristics or the receiving body. In this sense, environmental decision support systems (EDSS) are very useful and powerful tools to support during the decision making process. A new EDSS for the integrated urban wastewater system management has been developed integrating data from several sources (bibliographic, theoretical or historical) and a real case-based virtual system able to perform simulations. Results demonstrate the benefits of using this kind of systems in comparison with a standard approach, which do not use the expert knowledge and encourages continuing with this research in order to improve the quality and efficiency of this type of EDSSs / En les darreres dècades, i degut a la implementació de la Directiva Marc de l’Aigua, la gestió del cicle urbà de l’aigua ha esdevingut més complexa. S’introdueix el concepte de gestió integrada de conca, i és necessari considerar certa informació, com les característiques de la xarxa de clavegueram o del medi receptor. D’aquesta manera, els sistemes de suport a la decisió ambiental (EDSS) són eines potentíssimes que faciliten la presa de decisions en aquest camp. S’ha desenvolupat un nou EDSS per a la gestió integrada de conca que utilitza una base sòlida de coneixement expert, integrant informació de diverses fonts (bibliogràfiques, teòriques o històriques) i dos sistemes virtuals basats en dades reals sobre els quals és possible realitzar simulacions. Els resultats demostren que aquest sistema presenta beneficis importants respecte a una gestió estàndard sense sistema expert, i esperona a prosseguir amb la recerca i el desenvolupament per a millorar-lo
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Borderland Journeys: A Layered AutoethnographyBankert-Countryman, Janice Elizabeth 25 February 2014 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most importantly, the goal of this story-thesis is to illustrate how the process of story-making and -telling changes how we interpret our identities and our lifeworlds. I argue that the stories that we share change our identities, and I also argue that how we perceive our identity and the identities of others affects the stories that we share.
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