In Nigeria, seaport companies have lost significant revenue since 2000 because of supply chain disruptions. If not mitigated, supply chain disruptions at Nigerian seaports will significantly affect organizational output and profitability. The purpose of this research was to explore strategies some seaport business leaders use to mitigate supply chain disruptions in Lagos, Nigeria. Supply chain management theory was the conceptual framework for this single case study. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with 4 participants from a Nigerian seaport company tbat adopted successful strategies to mitigate supply chain disruptions and review of company documents for methodological triangulation. Using thematic analysis, the 5 primary themes were corruption, seaport congestion, bureaucratic bottleneck, equipment failures, and employee disputes. Customer satisfaction and business profitability were 2 primary strategies the business leaders in the study used to mitigate supply chain disruptions. By implementing the strategies identified in the study, business leaders in the Nigerian seaport sector may be able to bring about positive social change by increasing business profitability. The strategies could increase employment opportunities for people in seaport cities, thereby decreasing the poverty level and leading to a better standard of living for residents.

This applied dissertation was designed to determine the impact of direct writing conventions instruction on second grade writing mechanics mastery at an independent school in southeast Florida. The research study utilized a nonexperimental quantitative method. The design was pretest-posttest with a control. The pretest-posttest assessment was the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment. The score utilized in the analysis was the Phonics/Writing subtest. De-identified data were collected and analyzed from two separate second grade classes from two consecutive school years (i.e., 2011-2012, 2012-2013). The control group consisted of 43 second graders who received writing conventions instruction in the context of student writing during individual and small group conferences. The control group received no direct writing conventions instruction. The treatment group consisted of 39 second graders who received direct writing conventions instruction through the use of mini-lessons during the writing workshop. An analysis of the de-identified data revealed that, although the treatment group mean change score had a positive change greater than the control group change score, the change was not statistically significant. The researcher failed to reject the null hypothesis relative to a statistically significant difference between the two groups. Recommendations were made for future research.

Purpose: This qualitative descriptive study was undertaken to describe Eastern Woodlands Native adult perspectives, health care beliefs and type 2 diabetes management experiences. Specific Aims: The specific aims were to 1) explore and describe perceptions of type 2 diabetes among Eastern Woodland Native adults and how they relate to their understandings about the cause and treatment approaches to the disease, 2) describe how family, friends, and community intersect with type 2 diabetes management, 3) describe relationships with health care providers and 4) determine resources that would help diabetes-self management within their community. Framework: The PEN-3 Model by Airhihenbuwa was the initial framework used for the study. Methods: A qualitative descriptive design with maximum variation and snowball sampling was used and data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The overarching theme of Together We Can Return To Balance comprised five sub-themes: Coming to Know Life Paths with T2DM, Negotiating My Way Forward, Making Important Connections, Acknowledging the Imbalance, and Sticking Closer to Mother Earth illustrating physical, spiritual, and environmental health factors influencing DSM capacities. Conclusion: Native perspectives should be viewed as a crucial contextual variation for type 2 diabetes care when developing DSMES and for improving DSM capacities in these populations.

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[pt] O potencial de autoconstrução de estruturas adaptáveis de bambu é o foco deste trabalho que visa ampliar a ótica do design como método projetual com ênfase no processo e não no produto final e como produtor de significados, podendo gerar autonomia de grupos em uma produção local pautada na educação ambiental/sustentabilidade. A adaptabilidade destas estruturas é um conceito central onde o objeto e o seu processo construtivo é determinado pelas condições locais de material, mão de obra e demanda de uso. O campo do design se estabeleceu no Brasil de acordo com a ótica do desenho industrial concebido nos países desenvolvidos que prioriza a fabricação, distribuição e comercialização dos objetos em grande escala. Neste contexto a atividade projetual deixa de focar no ser humano para se dedicar ao consumo em massa. Acreditamos que por meio do design é possível formar cidadãos conscientes da problemática ambiental planetária conduzindo-os através de metodologias participativas desenvolvidas no LILD PUC-Rio. O meio acadêmico (universidades e escolas) se apresenta como contexto geográfico favorável para aplicação destas metodologias que se baseiam na autonomia de grupos para a produção de objetos utilitários localmente. A esfera local/ regional é o ponto de partida para a concepção do design do objeto, determinando recursos materiais disponíveis, demandas de uso e aspectos culturais. Destacamos a metodologia de Técnicas & Convivência onde os professores-técnicos orientam os alunos-voluntários na concepção, construção e uso das estruturas adaptáveis de bambu em diversas aplicações. Neste processo os voluntários são coautores e são levados a pensar o objeto a partir de seu ciclo de vida – concepção, fabricação, uso, manutenção e descarte/pós-uso. O bambu representa um material acessível, de grande resistência com versatilidade para ser aplicado em diversos usos e é explorado aqui para fins estruturais. A abordagem transdisciplinar envolvendo os campos do design, arquitetura, engenharia e geografia nos leva a uma analise complexa do processo construtivo e do objeto final, contextualizando a produção no espaço. Em estudos de campo no Brasil e nos EUA concluímos que esta ótica de design com base na produção em esfera local/regional pautada na educação ambiental/sustentabilidade, tem grande acessibilidade e pode ser potencializada a partir da colaboração transdisciplinar para outros usos na sociedade, seja com foco na educação, na autonomia produtiva ou no uso diversificado das estruturas adaptáveis de bambu. / [en] The self-building potential of adaptable bamboo structures is the focus of this work that is aiming to enlarge the concept of design as a projetual method with emphasis on the process rather than the end product and as a producer of meanings, which can generate autonomy groups in a local production based in the environmental education / sustainability. The adaptability of these structures is a central concept where the object and its constructive process is determined by local conditions of material, labor and demand of use. The design field was established in Brazil in accordance with the perspective of industrial design in developed countries that prioritizes the production, distribution and marketing of large-scale objects. In this context the projetual activity fails to focus on the human being necessities to devote to mass consumption. We believe that through the design is possible to form citizens aware of global environmental issues leading them through participatory methodologies developed in LILD PUC-Rio. The academia (universities and schools) is presented as favorable geographic context for the application of these methodologies that are based on the autonomy of groups for the production of utilitarian objects locally. The local / regional level is the starting point for the design of object design, determining material resources available, use, social demands and cultural aspects. We are highlighting the methodology of Techniques & Coexistence where technicians-teachers guide the students-volunteers in the design, construction and use of adaptable bamboo structures in various applications. In this process the volunteers are co-authors and are led to think the object starting from his lifecycle - design, manufacture, use, maintenance and disposal / post-use. Bamboo is an accessible material; high strength with versatility to be applied to various uses and is explored here for structural purposes. The transdisciplinary approach involving the fields of design, architecture, engineering and geography leads to a complex analysis of the construction process and the final object, contextualizing the production space. In field studies in Brazil and the United States we concluded that this concept of design based in the local/regional production lined in the environmental education / sustainability, has great accessibility and can be enhanced from the transdisciplinary collaboration to other uses in society and is focusing on education, productive autonomy or diversified use of adaptable structures of bamboo.

This paper focuses on the role of individualism in community organizing. My case study follows the organizing efforts of the Coalition for Affordable Northampton Neighborhoods (CANN) and residents’ attempts to save an affordable neighborhood from Smith College’s campus expansion. As a resident and co-founder of CANN I was particularly interested in identifying the reasons for our difficulty in organizing residents whose homes would be torn down. While attending community and city meetings, interviewing core activists and activists who left the organizing efforts, I observed individualism undermining community organizing and political involvement. People’s search for self-fulfillment was in conflict with the level of commitment necessary to sustain a social movement. Coupled with the “progressive politics” of a “Paradise City” where indulgent self-care permeates the culture, individualism emerged as an explanation for dwindling numbers of active residents. Identifying individualism as an issue for activists can provide much needed insight and subsequent action to address and solve the problem of erratic, unpredictable participation of individuals in political and community organizing. We can learn how to not only create, but also sustain strong social movements

The monograph Ripped from the land, shipped away, and reborn introduces the concept Destierro-which translates as uprooting, deracination, exile, exodus, and banishment- to unthink the intellectual, political, and legal categories used by prevailing intellectual models to narrate/explain the 2002 massacre, occurred at the community of Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó-Colombia. This thesis offers a critical prospect of the event. It highlights ethno-historical analytics to deconstruct the concepts of forced displacement, and forced migration. I study the racial, class, gender, generational, and regional dimensions undergirding this phenomenon to propose an Afrodiasporic Decolonial Critique of the field of Forced Migration. Single-axis explanations of this event and phenomenon have failed to move forward a complex analytical framework to fully explain the joint effect of multiple systems of oppression at play in events of land dispossession. Variables such as race, place, gender, and class; historical processes such as colonialism, the development of capitalism, contemporary place-based ethno-territorial social mobilization, and neoliberal multiculturalism intersect in this massacre. Accordingly, it is an imperative for critical historical sociological research to craft theories, and concepts to understand these crossroads. The basic argument I develop is that the concepts of forced displacement, and forced migration are formulas for historical erasure, and therefore limited to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Territories are socio-geo-historical formations that can only be understood within the context in which they are conceived, produced, re-produced, and unproduced. Likewise, the categories used to name and study land dispossession need to be contextually and historically grounded to capture both complex local specificities, and global linkages. I advocate for concepts that can be used as categories of analysis, social mobilization, and reparation; to unveil the historical roots of the current constellation of processes, which are generating a new cycle of Diaspora of the Afrocolombian population, and similar contexts in the world-system in which this phenomenon is observable. In this vein, unthinking/deconstructing the concepts of forced displacement, and forced migration, as well as the massacre of Bellavista as an event of forced displacement, is an attempt to write stories that can repair the broken dignity of those that have been, and still are continually exploited.

Over centuries, Hmong people have moved from mountain to mountain, home to home, country to country, crossing rivers and valleys in search of an escape from oppression. The Txiv Xaiv (Plig) ritual and chant has survived serial exodus and diaspora that Hmong people have experienced. This ritual encodes Hmong historical and cosmological understandings as an oral text, passed down from master to student, and performed at funerals to apply that understanding in the management of souls--ultimately to send them home. The Txiv Xaiv (Plig) serves as a glue, connecting the past generations to the generation of today and the generations of tomorrow. A funeral without a Txiv Xaiv is like a tree without its roots. Its ability to preserve Hmong history, morals, and traditions is unparalleled, but the dispersion of Hmong communities across a now global diaspora threatens the vitality of this oral text. An ethnographic film constitutes a critical and central empirical element of this thesis. This film, entitled Returning Home, draws on the affordances of visual and sonic mediums to both depict this oral text and the practices associated with it, and to unpack the cosmology of personhood encoded in the text, which Hickman (2014) calls "ancestral personhood". The film centers on a particular form of the Txiv Xaiv Plig that was preserved by a paramount Master, Shong Ger Thao, who passed down a critical version of the ritual to the director of Returning Home (and author of this thesis) before he passed away. This version of the ritual has the unique capacity to manage the soul of a person who did not receive a complete funeral and proper burial when they passed away, such as the post-1975 exodus from Laos, when Hmong families had to flee for their lives and many people were killed in the jungle along the way. By fate or coincidence (most Hmong would err on the side of fate), the first time that the director of this film was called upon to perform this Txiv Xaiv Plig was for an ex-post-facto funeral for Master Shong Ger's wife, Kia Yang, who had passed away during the lock-down phase of the Covid-10 pandemic, when large gatherings (necessary for a proper Hmong funeral) were not permitted. This film draws on this poetic circle of the passing down of knowledge and putting it into practice, in order to demonstrate the value of the knowledge that Master Shong Ger had preserved, specifically through the use of that knowledge to manage his own late wife's soul, thus completing the circle from one generation to the next in Master Shong Ger's family. This project--the written thesis in conjunction with the film--advances a "Hmong Oral Knowledge" approach that is critical to both understanding and preserving Hmong cosmology. This approach puts Hmong cosmology and philosophy into dialogue with scholarship being produced about Hmong communities across the world which tends to treat Hmong ideas as mere data-to-be-analyzed. The thesis focuses on the substance of Master Shong Ger Thao's philosophy (derived from Hmong oral ritual), in order to "look" and not just "see" (MacDougall 2019) human experience from a Hmong theoretical perspective. Given the primacy of oral and physically performative ritual practice, this thesis employs the medium of film in order to engage with Hmong ritual knowledge and practice in its own terms. The film provides a 'thick depiction' of these practices, and seeks to explicate the cosmology of the 'three souls' model of personhood that underpins these practices, while also focusing on the legacy of Master Shong Ger Thao, who cultivated and preserved the details of this cosmology and the oral texts that encode it.

[ES] Alcanzar eficiencia y la efectividad empresarial es un aspecto vital para las organizaciones y, como viene siendo tendencia desde hace muchos años, se puede lograr mediante la implementación de sistemas de gestión y metodologías de mejora continua. Los sistemas de gestión más conocidos son aquellos desarrollados por la Organización Internacional de Estandarización (ISO), siendo los más implantados el sistema de gestión de la calidad en base a la norma ISO 9001 y el sistema de gestión medioambiental en base a la norma ISO 14001. Estas normas han supuesto un cambio en la forma de gestionar las organizaciones alcanzando un éxito sin precedentes. Sin embargo, la proliferación de estos sistemas de gestión ha dado lugar a que las organizaciones implanten varios sistemas de gestión simultáneamente. Para aprovechar las sinergias de cada sistema de gestión implantado individualmente surge la necesidad de la integración, es decir, unir los distintos sistemas de gestión presentes en un solo sistema. En este contexto, debido a la inexistencia de una metodología de integración universal, en la literatura existen numerosas metodologías de integración, ya que tanto los académicos como las instituciones han elaborado varias metodologías de integración, que abarcan fundamentalmente los sistemas de calidad y medio ambiente. Es por ello que un nuevo planteamiento de investigación podría incluir la integración de otros sistemas de gestión distintos a los mencionados anteriormente, con el fin de diferenciarse y así crear nuevas líneas de investigación. Por tanto, una buena opción sería la integración de la gestión del riesgo que, aunque no sea uno de los sistemas de gestión más extendidos, conllevaría cuantiosos beneficios para las organizaciones, pudiendo así controlar de la forma más adecuada los problemas referentes a los riesgos. Por otro lado, cuando en la literatura se analizan las metodologías de integración, todas ellas engloban únicamente sistemas de gestión. No hay que obviar, que además de estas normas, existen otras metodologías de mejora continua y de mejora de la calidad, como es el caso de Six Sigma. En referencia a esta metodología, existen estudios donde se reflejan los beneficios que conlleva la implantación de la metodología Six Sigma en las organizaciones. Llegados a este punto, en la presente tesis se pretende diseñar una nueva metodología de integración para ayudar a las organizaciones a incrementar la competitividad, productividad y calidad y mediante la integración de metodología Six Sigma, la Gestión de la Calidad basado en la norma ISO 9001:2015 y la Gestión del Riesgo en base a la norma ISO 31000:2018. La metodología de integración propuesta se podrá aplicar en pymes industriales de la Comunidad Valenciana y, además, será validada por un panel de expertos y por las pymes valencianas. Adicionalmente se ha realizado un estudio comparativo con pymes españolas establecidas en la República Checa. / [CA] Aconseguir l'eficiència i l'efectivitat empresarial és un aspecte vital per a les organitzacions i, com és tendència des de fa molts anys, es pot aconseguir mitjançant la implantació de sistemes de gestió i metodologies de millora contínua. Els sistemes de gestió més coneguts són aquells desenvolupats per l'Organització Internacional de Estandardització (ISO), sent els més implantats el sistema de gestió de la qualitat en base ala norma ISO 9001 i el sistema de gestió mediambiental en base a la normal ISO 14001. Aquestes normes han suposat un canvi en la forma de gestionar les organitzacions aconseguint un èxit sense precedents. No obstant això, la proliferació d'aquests sistemes de gestió ha donat lloc al fet que les organitzacions implanten diversos sistemes de gestió simultàniament. Per aprofitar les sinèrgies de cada sistema de gestió implantat individualment sorgeix la necessitat de la integració, és a dir, unir els diversos sistemes de gestió presents en un sol sistema integrat. En aquest context, ja que no existeix una metodologia d'integració universal, a la literatura existeixen nombroses metodologies d'integració, ja que tant els acadèmics com les institucions han elaborat diverses metodologies d'integració, que abasten principalment els sistemes de qualitat i medi ambient. Per això, un nou plantejament de recerca podria incloure la integració d'altres sistemes de gestió diferents als esmentats anteriorment, amb la finalitat de diferenciar-se i així crear noves línies de recerca. Per tant, una bona opció seria la integració de la gestió del risc que, encara que no és un dels sistemes de gestió més estesos, comportaria quantiosos beneficis per a les organitzacions, podent així controlar de la forma més adequada els problemes referents als riscos. D'altra banda, quan a la literatura s'analitzen les metodologies d'integració, totes elles engloben únicament sistemes de gestió. No cal obviar, que a més d'aquestes normes, existeixen altres metodologies de millora contínua i de millora de la qualitat, com és el cas de Six Sigma. En referència a aquesta metodologia, es troben estudis on es reflecteixen els beneficis que comporta la implantació de la metodologia Six Sigma en les organitzacions. Arribats a aquest punt, en la present tesi es pretén desenvolupar una nova metodologia d'integració que ajude a les organitzacions a millorar la competitivitat, productivitat i qualitat mitjançant la integració de metodologia Six Sigma, la Gestió de la Qualitat basat en la norma ISO 9001:2015 i la Gestió del Risc basat en la norma ISO 31000:2018. La metodologia d'integració proposta serà aplicable a pimes industrials de la Comunitat Valenciana i a més, serà validada per un panel d'experts i per les pimes valencianes. Addicionalment s'ha dut a terme una comparativa amb pimes espanyoles establides en la República Txeca. / [EN] Achieve business efficiency and effectiveness is a vital aspect for organizations and, as it has been the tendency for many years, this can be achieved through the implementation of management systems and continuous improvement methodologies. The best-known management systems are those developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), being the most implemented quality management system based on the ISO 9001 standard and the environmental management system based on ISO 14001. These standards have meant a change in the way organizations are managed, leading to unprecedented success. However, the proliferation of these management systems has resulted in organizations implementing simultaneously various management systems. To take advantage of the synergies of each management system implemented individually, the need of integration arises to join the different management systems into a one integrated system. In this context, since there is not a universal integration methodology, there are abundant integration methodologies in the literature, due to both academics and institutions have developed several integration methodologies, which mainly cover quality and environmental systems. Thus, a new research approach could include the integration of other management systems different from those mentioned above, in order to differentiate and then create new lines of research. Therefore, a good option would be the integration of risk management which, although it is not one of the most widespread management systems, would involve significant benefits for organizations, being able to control the problems related to risks in the most appropriate way. On the other hand, we must not forget that in addition to the above standards, there are other methodologies for continuous improvement and improvement of quality, such as the case of Six Sigma. According to this methodology, there are studies where the benefits of implementing Six Sigma methodology in organizations are reflected. At this point, this thesis aims to develop a new integration methodology that can help organizations improve competitiveness, productivity and quality and through the integration of Six Sigma methodology, Quality Management based on ISO 9001:2015, and Risk Management based on ISO 31000:2018 standard. The proposed integration methodology will be applicable to industrial SMEs in the Valencia region in Spain and it will also be validated by a panel of experts and SMEs. It has beena dditionally carried out a comparison with Spanish SMEs located in the Czech Republic. / Blasco Torregrosa, M. (2022). Nueva metodología de integración: Six Sigma + Gestión de riesgos + Gestión de la calidad. Aplicabilidad en pymes industriales de la Comunidad Valenciana [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/180812 / TESIS

La minería juega un papel muy importante en el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo sostenible de un país o una región. Este sector desempeña un papel fundamental en la economía y trae consigo el incremento de las reservas nacionales, además, contribuyen a la sociedad incentivando las inversiones y el empleo, permitiendo un equilibrio económico. En el presente trabajo de investigación se evaluó la eficiencia de las plantas de producción de una cantera mediante el indicador OEE (Overal Equipment effectiveness). Obteniendo como resultado actual el 65%, mientras que el promedio estándar mundial es del 85%, y el de las otras canteras de la empresa es del 80%. Para el desarrollo de la investigación se identificaron y analizaron las causas que afectan a la eficiencia de la cantera. Siendo las causas más relevantes, los atoros que se producen en la chancadora, mantenimientos correctivos, inspección de equipos, limpieza de colas de faja y abastecimientos de hormigón. Así mismo, en base a las causas analizadas se propone la implementación de la metodología Lean y sus herramientas TPM y SMED. Con el objetivo de incrementar el OEE de las plantas de producción de la cantera. La implementación de la herramienta TPM nos permitirá disminuir los tiempos de paradas por mantenimientos correctivos. Mientras, la implementación de la herramienta SMED nos permite disminuir los tiempos de las causas de inspección de equipos, desataros de la chancadora, limpieza de colas y abastecimiento de hormigón. Con la implementación de estas herramientas se logrará incrementar el OEE en un 23.5%. / Mining plays a very important role in the economic growth and sustainable development of a country or a region. This sector plays a fundamental role in the economy and brings with it an increase in national reserves, in addition, they contribute to society by encouraging investment and employment, allowing an economic balance. In the present research work, the efficiency of the production plants of a quarry was evaluated using the OEE indicator (Overal Equipment effectiveness). Obtaining as a current result 65%, while the world standard average is 85%, and that of the other quarries of the company is 80%. For the development of the research, the causes that affect the efficiency of the quarry were identified and analyzed. Being the most relevant causes, the jams that occur in the crusher, corrective maintenance, equipment inspection, cleaning of strip glues and concrete supplies. Likewise, based on the causes analyzed, the implementation of the Lean methodology and its TPM and SMED tools is proposed. With the aim of increasing the OEE of the quarry production plants. The implementation of the TPM tool will allow us to reduce downtime for corrective maintenance. Meanwhile, the implementation of the SMED tool allows us to reduce the times of the causes of inspection of equipment, loosening of the crusher, cleaning of tails and supply of concrete. With the implementation of these tools, the OEE will be increased by 23.5%. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional